Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hubert the Silent
Open-Minded. Next day Carter made a similarly low-keyed pitch to Jerry Wurf, president of the 700,000-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Many other labor leaders are backing Carter's rivals, Henry Jackson and Morris Udall, or prefer Hubert Humphrey, or are staying neutral. But Wurf, like the top people at the United Auto Workers, is open-minded about Carter, and is favorably impressed...
...singer-actress, notorious for banning the unhip from her clubs in Paris, Monte Carlo and Rio, was all open arms as she offered several hundred guests a preview look at her new dance-and-dining emporium. The locale: Manhattan's Delmonico hotel. The stars: Actress Candice Bergen, Designer Hubert de Givenchy and former Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland. The floor show: a fashion exhibit featuring "ready-to-dance" dresses created by the red-haired restaurateur herself. "I have always, since a child, dream to have my name on Broadway," confessed Régine, 46. "So for now, I have...
...chairman of the Joint Economic Committee wasted no time stating the issue as he saw it. "We stand today at a historic crossroad," said Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. "We can accept the policies that have brought stagflation. Or we can . . . replace them with a new economics." He was referring to the "Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1976," which he has co-authored with California Representative Augustus Hawkins and which is rapidly becoming a kind of election manifesto for liberal Democrats. The true purpose of last week's hearings was to give national exposure to the legislation...
...power to a successor. This has never been done successfully in modern politics. Such elections have been the only ones in modern times when the White House shifted to the other party. Truman could not pass the keys of office to Stevenson, nor Eisenhower to Nixon, nor L.B.J. to Hubert Humphrey...