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Universities today are the focus of national attention. Campus disorders, attacks by Spiro Agnew, the peace movement, and the campaigns of menlike Ronald Reagan are indications of just how much university activity is key to the political drift of America...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Harvard-The Divided University | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

This pure sexism is the same as Agnew racism. In its theory it sees a choice between admitting members of population groups according to numbers or according to ability, as though ability is naturally distributed unevenly between men and women, for example. And in its practice, it means channeling women away from preparation for Harvard from the day they are born until the end of high school, and "discovering" that they don't meet "admissions standards," or that they can better find what they "want" elsewhere...

Author: By Sue Jhirad, | Title: Women's Liberation Finding a Life of One's Own | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

...announcement followed several days during which Administration spokesmen-including Nixon, Attorney General John Mitchell, Vice President Agnew, and Mrs. Mitchell-had expressed severe criticism of college administrators. According to Kandy Stroud, a reporter for Women's Wear Daily, the Attorney General recently labeled college officials "stupid bastards who are ruining our educational institutions...

Author: By Bruce E. Johnson, | Title: Nixon Asks An FBI Role In Campus Bomb Probes | 9/23/1970 | See Source »

Excerpts from Spiro Agnew's speeches last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Vice President's Voice | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...active conduct of upholding democracy and honoring commitments." At present, "the business of the Company consists primarily of acquiring and destroying real estate." Richard Nixon has been Chief Executive Officer since Jan. 1, 1969 ("Prior thereto, Mr. Nixon devoted his life to securing his present position"), and Spiro T. Agnew has been Vice President since the same date ("Prior to his joining the Company, Mr. Agnew did not exist"). The Company has organized a "Cambodian Subsidiary," and maintains an office in Paris, France, "but does not consider such facilities or operations to be significant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Satirizing the War as an Investment | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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