Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will pick up another candidate: Idaho's Frank Church, 51, who has won splashy headlines as chairman of the Senate committee investigating U.S. intelligence agencies. He plans to announce in early March. Last week his campaign committee sent flyers to 35,000 Democrats in an attempt to stop Hubert Humphrey, the undeclared possible compromise candidate. Said the message in part: "Democrats must not turn backward . . . The American people won't accept a warmed-over New Deal or a rerun of the Great Society...
...that he is, among other things, a closet racist. The New Republic, which liked him in April, decided in January that "up to now, Carter has been unjustifiably considered part of the liberal pack." Politicians, especially, have seized opportunities to undercut Carter: when he recently referred in public to Hubert Humphrey's "record as a loser," Democrats of divergent political plumage leaped to Humphrey's defense. But when Edwin Muskie made a similar comment a week or so later, no one complained. In fact, Democrats seem so clearly to have declared an open season on Carter, writes Jack...
...teammate throws him up in the air) "and the agony of defeat" as an Olympic ski-jumper slides sideways off a 70 meter jump, taking a few saplings with him on the way to the infirmary. But this year's coverage of the Winter Olympics wins the all-time Hubert-Humphrey-"I-was-a-Jew-once-myself" Poor Taste Award, not just for morbidity, but also for sexism, chauvinism, and plain stupidity...
...Senator Hubert Humphrey, 64. Pinhead tumor of the urinary bladder in 1973 was treated with X rays, and follow-up examination in 1974 showed no signs of cancer. Since then, he "has remained in excellent health with no evidence of tumor...
...Well, then, Wallace is second choice in this area, right? Wrong. Gerald Ford is. A poll of 601 eligible voters, including Democrats, Republicans and Independents, conducted by Darden Research Corp., showed Reagan was favored by 20%, Ford by 18% and Wallace by 12%. No one else got more than Hubert Humphrey...