Word: hubert
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...done deal that the Democratic Party will hold its 1996 presidential convention in Chicago, its first there since Yippie riots over Vietnam and delegates' turmoil marred the '68 nomination of Hubert Humphrey. An aide to Mayor Richard Daley, whose father held office the last time around, told TIME Chicago correspondent Julie Grace the decision is a matter of wrapping up a few easy details. Chicago bid $32 million to be the host, beating out rivals New York City, New Orleans and San Antonio, Texas, for a possible $100 million economic return. Grace says David Wilhelm, a former operative of Daley...
...young advertising man named H.R. Haldeman, he finally learned how to make effective use of television: not in speeches or press conferences but answering questions from "typical voters" and then carefully editing the results. If that was artificial, so in a way was the whole 1968 campaign. Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey dared not repudiate Johnson's doomed Vietnam policy and talked instead about "the politics of joy." Nixon, who had agreed with Johnson's escalation of the war and hoped to court segregationist votes in the South, spoke mainly in code words about "peace with honor" in Vietnam...
Detective Thomas Simas, who was working with Detective Hubert "Dick" Estes, was performing a surveillance duty on North Harvard St. near the Business School parking lot at 219 Western Ave. Around three o'clock Thursday afternoon, the two detectives spotted and checked the license plate of a suspicious car, Lt. John F. Rooney said yesterday...
...bust was cast in plaster by sculptor WalkerHancock, whose work includes the figures of RobertFrost and Hubert Humphrey at the U.S. Capitol...
...environment is infiltrated by a mysterious independent radio programmer. Mark, at exactly ten o'clock every evening, cranks up his short-wave radio system and plays Happy Harry Hard-On to the many teenage listeners of his school (which very coincidentally match the initials HHH of the high school, Hubert H. Humphrey). Mark gives advice for the lost teenagers who "come out" on the air. These include, as you may have guessed, the repressed, studious suicidal Malcolm; the perfect, beautiful and smart Page; and most of all, the sexually explicit "Eat-me, Beat-me Lady," Nora, played enticingly by Samantha...