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...bunting-Pat and Dick and Julie and David and Tricia and Eddie and Mamie Eisenhower-and perhaps some time out for golf. The only real drama should come on the third day, when the President will end months of speculation by answering the vice-presidential question: Will it be Spiro Agnew again? Or former Treasury Secretary John Connally? Or some unsuspected Nixonian surprise...
Favorite. Only one colorful uncertainty remains: the vice-presidential nomination. Will Spiro Agnew be chosen again? Or will he be dumped at five minutes to twelve, withdrawing as soon as he learns of the President's wishes? And if that should indeed be the case, will John Connally be the man? There is no doubt that despite his resignation from the Treasury, the Texan remains very much a White House favorite, as evidenced by Nixon's sending him on a 15-nation tour as his personal representative...
Papp is pre-eminently a cultural populist who, despite his affection for serious, cerebral works, sometimes sounds like a Brooklyn-accented Spiro Agnew. Part of the problem with some community theaters, he claims, is that the "sissies"-the elite and the overeducated-are identified with them; his own education stopped with high school. "Most people in this country associate the arts with the effete," he claims, "and most theater is so pallid now. Actually the theater is a very powerful, masculine kind of thing." The one common characteristic of all of the plays that Papp produces-including a few that...
...advertise several times a day over WEEI that its Decor "defies description." The shelves of the "priceless antiques" are lined with Readers Digest Condensed Books. Germaine Greer, Bobby Orr, Spiro T. Agnew, Margaret Mead and others are illuminated in apostolic garb against the far wall. At best, the decor can be described as eclectic, at worst, obscene...
...nasty edge. Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott was moved to call McGovern the "triple-A candidate-acid, amnesty and abortion." While Nixon would campaign as a working President, he would have scores of "surrogate candidates" ready to go forth with grittier political messages. One of them might be Spiro Agnew or, if Agnew is dropped from the Republican ticket, former Treasury Secretary John Connally. Last week, perhaps in preparation for a vice-presidential role, Connally was dispatched by the President on a 17-nation world tour in Nixon's behalf...