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...beamed for photographers on the boarding ramp of Air Force Two, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey looked as proud as a boy with his first pair of long pants. In fact, Lyndon Johnson had just allowed Hubert his first extended vice-presidential trip abroad, a week-long swing around four Far Eastern nations...
...better not ask Japan to get involved in the war in Viet Nam. That was a prime reason for the visit, and in talks with Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, Humphrey requested increased Japanese help, consisting of economic and medical aid and refugee relief. Sato merely looked bland. Hubert also handed Sato a letter from Dean Rusk outlining the U.S.'s negotiation proposals on Viet Nam and assured him that Washington was doing all it could...
...Middle Ages, the questions that philosophy asked were determined largely by theology; today major philosophical issues are posed by science. Says Chicago's McKeon: "The new priests come from the lab and hand us the tablet-how do we handle it?" Philosopher Hubert Dreyfus of M.I.T. is wondering about the possibility of creating a computer that would be completely determined by programming but would behave as if it were a free, intelligent agent. "If something that we knew was just a machine could behave intelligently," he muses, "it would tend to suggest that maybe we are just machines." Would...
Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey dies of attrition. President Johnson appoints young serviceman, Patrick Nugent, in his place. Hugh Hefner refused to appear at White House Conference on the Fine Arts. "I won't go near that place until the Playboy Philosophy is law," he says...
...more surprising of the verdicts-and the more hopeful for the survival of the local jury system-came in Anniston. After nine hours of deliberation, the jurors found Hubert Damon Strange, 23, guilty of second-degree murder and gave him a ten-year prison sentence. Two alleged accomplices, Johnny Ira DeFries, 25, and Lewis Blevins, 26, are still to be tried. The case was prosecuted by local authorities, with some help from...