Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate sponsors of the Civil Rights Act insisted that it provided only for equal opportunity, not racial preference or balance. Said the late Senator Hubert Humphrey: "Title VII does not require an employer to achieve any sort of racial balance in his work force by giving preferential treatment to any individual or group." Added Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr.: "An employer with only white employees could continue to have only the best-qualified persons even if they were all white...
...other stars hang out with one another in Malibu, Beatty moves and mingles with the "right" people. He has had breakfast with Henry Kissinger in San Clemente and dined back in town with Vladimir Horowitz. He has numbered among his friends the likes of Lillian Hellman, Robert F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern and Jerry Brown. The countless women in his life have included Natalie Wood, Julie Christie and his current flame, Diane Keaton...
Three months after the death of Hubert Humphrey, his family has still not figured out what to do with the thousands of things that people sent him over the past 35 years. Stored in a musty basement of the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul are plaster busts of Humphrey and his wife Muriel, a doll made of apples and holding a copy of the Senate rules, a container of holy water from Lourdes, an eight-inch-wide cookie made of Rice Krispies and baked in the shape of a maple leaf, four whips (sent to him when...
...LIFE. Ajemian has covered national political conventions since 1952 and is known to his colleagues as a painstaking reporter with an obsessive need to probe behind a politician's rhetoric. During the 1976 campaigns, Bob's most memorable piece, perhaps, was a sensitive portrait of the ailing Hubert Humphrey watching the action from home. "I admire politicians," Ajemian confesses. "They're the best of the survivalists. They work so hard to conceal their wounds. But when they do trust you and allow you to look behind that psychological armor, it's fascinating." Like Sidey before...
Before entering the winner's circle, Player witnessed the destruction of the bids for victory of Hubert Green, defending champion Tom Watson, and veteran Rod Funseth...