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...Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan are using the Wallace threat in their attempts to pry loose Richard Nixon's convention delegates. Florida's Republican Governor Claude Kirk is distributing an arithmetical bumper sticker: 2P÷ GW= H³ Translation: Two parties divided by George Wallace equals Hubert Horatio Humphrey. The Democrats, also, fear that Wallace could hurt them in blue-collar areas outside Dixie...
...many ways, Hubert Horatio Humphrey and Richard Milhous Nixon embody the cherished old ideals. They are "achieving Americans," men from modest Main Street beginnings who, through ambition and ability, rose to the U.S. Senate and to a place at the right hand of a President. Even when the easy life became available to them, it could not lure them from the burdens ?and ambitions?of public service...
...father, methinks I see my father," quoth Prince Hamlet. Where? asked the startled Horatio. "In my mind's eye," replied the prince, with what must have been a sly smile. Today, more and more artists are devoting themselves to art that exists primarily in the mind's eye. Called "conceptual art," it usually exists in the form of a scale model, a preliminary sketch or a written description, suitable for framing. Any of these items, the artists explain, are but a hint, a shadow, a shade, a clue to the real thing, which is usually some concept...
...that characteristically upbeat note, Hubert Horatio Humphrey volunteered last week to serve his nation as chief pathfinder. Eight years ago, he was the first to announce for the Democratic presidential nomination and the first to be eliminated, long before the convention. Now he is the third, and probably last, entry in a far more bitter contest. This time, no one doubts that he has the strength to battle it out to the end next August...
...astounds those who remember him as the symbol of ultra-liberal factionalism. But Humphrey has been more accommodated than accommodating. Son of a small-town South Dakota pharmacist who loved politics, people and poetry, he grew up in farm country where the Depression came early and stayed long. Hubert Horatio Sr., the "town rebel," the Democratic chairman of Republican Spink County who joshed about his wife's being "politically unreliable" (she voted for Harding and Coolidge), the kind of father who sat Junior on his knee to hear Wilson's Fourteen Points and who read Bryan's cross-of-gold...