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Pusey, who had told the committee the same thing 18 years ago when McCarthy was chairman, was never given a chance to testify because J. C. Von Helms '62, then a tutor in Lowell House and now a speechwriter for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, spent too long on the stand criticizing Pusey's actions during the crisis of the previous Spring. Helms had written committee chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) requesting the opportunity to testify...
Surprisingly, the most expensive bottles are of comparatively recent vintage. Each of the 117 Commemorative Centennial gift bottles issued by Chicago's First National Bank in 1964 now sells for more than $2,000. And the Spiro Agnew bottle, ordered by the G.O.P. National Committee and presented to contributors at a $150-a-plate dinner in Washington, D.C., last year, today commands a cool $2,800. Al Cembura, who sees the fad supplanting the ebbing enthusiasm for coin and gun collecting, insists happily that "this is just the beginning...
...Agnew added that the "Project Nassau" documentary involved support for "personages actively engaged in breaking the law" and possible violation of U.S. Neutrality...
Though he had previously billed his speech as a rebuttal to the "Selling of the Pentagon," Agnew only criticized the documentary on two points-that its scriptwriter had also written "Hunger in America" and its executive producer had also been the executive producer the executive producer of "Project Nassau...
Recounting his own rise in the field of news commentary, Agnew discussed the historical tradition of vice presidential obscurity. He concluded that finding "no authoritative reason why a Vice President is required to choose between catalepsy and garrulity, I forsook the comfortable code of many of my predecessors, abandoned the unwritten rules-and said something...