Word: spiros
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...Eileen Cormier, 36, who became a school librarian on Long Island to support her four children in the seven years since her husband Arthur was captured. During the long captivity, the commonplaces of life have changed?there are easier abortion laws, widespread color television, the success of Hair, and Spiro Agnew has become a household word. "It will almost be like a Martian dropping in," says Mrs. Cormier. "I don't know how he's going to feel. Who helps me if he starts crying or screaming...
Nixon has proved harmful to Republican office seekers in much more direct ways. In recent weeks, both Spiro Agnew and Richard Kleindienst visited Mississippi to sing the praises of Democratic Senator James Eastland, while never mentioning Gil Carmichael, the Republican who is running against him. Stunned by such a direct slap in the party's face, Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker drafted a letter supporting Carmichael that was signed by 12 G.O.P. Senate colleagues, including Jacob Javits, Mark Hatfield and Charles Percy...
...five-year study of the collectives, industrialization need not destroy the movement. For one thing, factories provide the prestige of work for the aging, a group that did not exist in the youthful pioneer days. The emotional problems of the elderly can be serious: according to Social Anthropologist Melford Spiro, loss of ability to compete with younger men at heavy farm work is a major cause of psychological insecurity in older chaverim (members...
...demonstrators were restrained in their actions by the knowledge that Pat Nixon was the target of the action, instead of her husband or the irascible Spiro Agnew. They were also determined to be peaceful so that the message of the demonstration--sign the peace agreement--was not lost in the fray of mans arrests...
...obsessed with power. What he cares about is money and military power, bucks and bombs." But it is an uphill battle. At the Polish-American Congress convention in Detroit this month, Shriver offered what he called a seven-point "Ethnic Magna Carta," but he received much less applause than Spiro Agnew, who simply reminded the audience how close the President felt to them. Agnew and Nixon received another kind of ethnic compliment in Chicago when Frank Sinatra once again emerged from retirement. Changing the lyrics of The Lady Is a Tramp, Sinatra crooned to a crowd...