Word: spiros
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...election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy and abused civil liberties in Okefenokee. Nikita Khrushchev appeared as a grumpy pig. Portraits of Lyndon Johnson as a nearsighted longhorn steer, J. Edgar Hoover as a squat bulldog and Spiro Agnew as a hyena occasionally annoyed editors and readers. As a result, papers sometimes dropped the strip. Kelly professed indifference ("They usually come back"), but he sometimes prepared alternative, apolitical episodes and let his subscribers choose...
...court battle over pretrial publicity and the protection of newsmen's sources was avoided last week because of Spiro Agnew's resignation. The subpoenas that had been issued to journalists became moot. The basic issues, however, remain very much alive...
...Spiro Agnew's abdication produced some interesting shifts of tone among editorial writers, columnists and TV commentators last week. Some of the journalists who had clashed most bitterly with Agnew in the past showed considerable restraint in burying their old adversary. Others who had been relatively sympathetic, perhaps feeling that they had been betrayed, were more harsh...
...conservative papers spoke for those who had believed in Agnew's innocence or who had felt that he was being treated unfairly. Said the Atlanta Journal: "It was as if Santa Claus had been revealed as a dirty old man." Detroit News Columnist Pete Waldmeir declared that "Spiro Agnew owes us all an apology. He took our trust and ground it into the dirt. He treated us like fools, thumbed his nose at duty, honor, country...
...McGinniss, after a visit to the Watergate hearings, returns with the unsurprising news of dissension in the Senate committee and its staff. Short pieces on what people were saying about Spiro Agnew in a Baltimore bar and around Palm Springs suggest that reporters who sit around and listen might be better off going out and digging...