Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon suffered the further indignity of hearing his Vice President, Spiro T. Agnew, attest to his boss's integrity -thereby calling attention to the fact that it was in question. For several weeks, Agnew's aides had spread the word that the Vice President was "appalled" by Nixon's handling of the Watergate scandal. But Agnew last week read a 90-second prepared statement saying that he wanted it known that "I have full confidence in the integrity of President Nixon and in his determination and ability to resolve the Watergate matter to the full satisfaction...
...resignation of Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III showed how far the deception had spread among men charged with law enforcement. Gray had failed to win approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee as permanent FBI director largely because of his chummy cooperation with the White House in the Watergate investigation. His eventual resignation thus was certain. But it came suddenly, after he had confided to "friends" that he planned to tell the federal Watergate grand jury in Washington about an astonishing cover-up of potential evidence on his part. This, he said, would implicate two of Nixon...
...include a clever documentary film within the film which he made with the assistance of Jay Cocks, the young film critic for Time. Unfortunately, De Palma never treats the psychological facet of the girls' unusual predicament with any more depth than the freakshow fascination of the "human interest" picture spread which Life ran a few years back and which was De Palma's inspiration for the film...
That your domestic and foreign sales are great I have no doubt, as calls and mail from friends all over are swamping me, pointing out the caption error that you made in your picture spread on Haiti [Jan. 29]. I will admit that our custodian's picture was excellent, but really bears no resemblance to me, as you can see from my photograph...
Ginn said he expects that the response of students will be "a landslide, because of the wide variety of interests here and because word-of-mouth news of a good interview will spread quickly...