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...streets and shop floors. Fifty years ago, the caustic, rumpled Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas would stomp through such gatherings reminding people that he rode the rods out of Yakima, Wash., to go to Columbia Law School in 1922. Twenty-five years ago, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey palmed his way around the stately chambers in the righteous sheen of polyester. And a labor leader like George Meany still had the hands of a plumber. If there was anybody at the Harriman reception who had done physical labor in the past 10 years, or now makes less than...
April is the cruelest month, as French vintners, especially in Bordeaux, have again learned. Instead of spring showers came the worst frost in more than 30 years, killing early buds in the vineyards. First assessments halved production forecasts for the year -- a loss of almost $690 million. Said Hubert Bouteiller of the Interprofessional Council for Wines in Bordeaux: "In one fell swoop, the work of a year's pruning was destroyed...
...Today it wouldn't get past lukewarm," said Hubert Lin '93, an Eliot House resident. "I didn't take a shower today because it wouldn't get...warm. In fact, it was nowhere near warm...
...probably done much to stir racial tensions between Blacks and whites as well. Moreover, the framers of the 1964 Civil Rights Act never envisioned their legislation as the precursor to quotas and set-asides. In a speech on the Senate floor before passage of the 1964 Act, Hubert Humphrey declared that Title VII, which bans racial and sex discrimination, "does not provide that any quota systems may be established to maintain racial balance in employment...
...disintegration of a public man entered its final stages last week when the Senate ethics committee recommended that the full Senate publicly denounce Minnesota Republican David Durenberger, 55, who occupies the seat once held by Hubert Humphrey and at one time looked as though he might be worthy of it. The panel's three Democrats and three Republicans accused the Senator of knowingly engaging in reprehensible conduct that was "clearly and unequivocally unethical." They also recommended that Durenberger be required to pay to charity the $95,000 he received in excess of allowable speaking fees and another...