Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When some of the children alleged last October that one to six youngsters had been murdered, almost all of the child-abuse charges were dropped pending a new investigation by State Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III. Last week Humphrey's task force, which included agents from the FBI and the Minnesota bureau of criminal apprehension, released a 29-page report concluding that no murders had been committed. Moreover, the study harshly criticized the original investigation. Said Humphrey: "The manner in which the Scott County cases were handled has resulted in it being impossible to determine, in some cases, whether...
...cash siphoned from Hughes' Nevada gambling casinos and piped to politicians. Wielding the only power he knew, the deranged industrialist reveals a crude cynicism. On Lyndon Johnson: "I have done this kind of business with him before. So, he wears no awe-inspiring robe of virtue with me." On Hubert Humphrey: "A candidate who needs us and wants our help . . . somebody we control sufficiently." On Richard Nixon: "My man. He I know for sure knows the facts of life...
...police officials in the 50 largest cities. The eight-year-old National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives now numbers some 60 police chiefs, directors of public safety and sheriffs among its 700 regular members. Ten years ago, there was only one black chief in a large city, Hubert Williams, police director of Newark, N.J. Last week Williams was named the new president of the Police Foundation, the influential law-enforcement think tank in Washington...
...Forbidden as a young girl from even looking at freaks, she now stared. She began to prowl the streets of New York-late at night, when the train stations were "deep, empty, odoriferous-'like pits of hell''' and when the freaks-came out. Soon she became a regular at Hubert's Freak Museum. Staring at the hideous figures, she felt fear run its course through her body and she was determined to conquer...
...likely to occur until the 1990s, says John E. Naugle, a Fairchild official. For now, research will prevail. Still, the advocates of business in space believe that doubts should temper but not rule. Says 3M's Podsiadly: "The only thing more risky than participating is not participating." Says Hubert Davis, president of Houston's Eagle Engineering, a space think tank: "I believe people often overestimate what can be done in the short term, and underestimate what can be done in the long term...