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...Hubert Humphrey smashed a champagne bottle against the flag-draped hull, and the 425-ft. U.S.S. Will Rogers slid down the ways into the Thames River. Thus the 41st-and last -nuclear-powered Polaris missile submarine was launched last week in the General Dynamics Corporation's yards at Groton, Conn. For the U.S., it marked the end of a historically successful effort to develop seapower able to strike any target on earth...
...Club, bringing in family and friends to the tune of $10,000 in Democratic contributions. Several weeks later the Justice Department happened to drop a four-year-old antitrust suit against his Anheuser-Busch Corp. Then Busch, who also owns the Cardinals, happened to invite First-Ball Pitcher Hubert Humphrey to fly to the All-Star game in his company plane. In view of the airline strike, the Vice President hopped aboard - along with a little league of fans that happened to include Justice's antitrust chief, Donald F. Turner...
...fortune out of preaching that only the far right is right - and that just about everything else is wrong. A onetime tub thumper for Huey Long, Smith says that the U.S. was meant to be "a white, Christian country," claimed in 1952 that Eisenhower was Jewish, and has called Hubert Humphrey "a creature of Jewish subsidy." Though his appeal today is only to a lunatic fringe, he still makes a handsome living from virulent pamphleteering and donations to his rabid, California-based Christian Nationalist Crusade. By way of apostrophizing his movement, Smith, 68, has just erected a $250,000 snow...
...N.A.A.C.P., President Johnson took the occasion to say in a Texas press conference: "We are not interested in black power and we're not interested in white power, but we are interested in American democratic power with a small d." Addressing the Los Angeles meeting, Vice President Hubert Humphrey added: "There is no room in America for calls for racism, whether they come from a throat that is white or one that is black...
White-suited diplomats filed into Santo Domingo's glittering National Palace. U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey arrived on the run, flushed and hurried over an overlong chat with Peace Corps workers. A few moments later, a 21-gun salute pounded out over the Caribbean and rolled across the Santo Domingo coastal plain, signaling to Dominicans the inauguration of the country's first constitutional President since the military toppled Leftist Juan Bosch in 1963. "I have not come here to put on the uniform and boots of Trujillo," President Joaquín Balaguer told his inauguration audience. "I have...