Word: hubertism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eventually Stokes got the volume he wanted, but for Hubert Humphrey, looking ahead more to November than to August, the cajolery in Cleveland was all too typical of the reception he has been getting across the country. Crowds have been slim nearly everywhere, and sometimes hecklers and protesters seem to outnumber supporters. Philadelphia police estimated that 20,000 people heard Humphrey's Fourth of July speech in front of Independence Hall, but newsmen reckoned that the true figure was closer...
...poll of TIME correspondents in all 50 states and the District of Columbia indicates that the answers to the three questions are 1) quite possibly, 2) no, and 3) yes. Regardless of current polls that show him trailing Democrats Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy, Nixon stands at least an even chance of winning on Election Day. Of course, the conduct of the campaign itself and the effectiveness of the candidates on television could change the outcome. Moreover, this conclusion is based on several premises, none of which may be entirely safe. Among them are the assumptions that Humphrey will...
...EAST: Democratic Romp Of the region's 149 electoral votes, Hubert Humphrey may win 79 and Richard Nixon 24, with 46 uncertain. For Humphrey: Connecticut (8), District of Columbia (3), Massachusetts (14), New York (43), Rhode Island (4) and West Virginia (7). For Nixon: Delaware (3), Maine (4), Maryland (10), New Hampshire (4) and Vermont...
Having claimed an arsenal of 1,811 delegate votes - 499 more than he needs to capture the Democratic presidential nomination in August - Hubert Humphrey might understandably have been content to tend to his Washington chores or else to rusticate back home in Waverly, Minn. Instead, acting for all the world like a ravenous underdog, the Vice President scrambled through a grueling Midwestern campaign tour...
...Difference. Despite Richard Nixon's long lead in the delegate count (see box), Rocky was drawing big and often enthusiastic crowds. Encouraged by last week's Gallup poll showing him trailing Democrat Eugene McCarthy but leading both Hubert Humphrey and Nixon, the Governor told a Boston press conference: "I was just flying over your race track and I saw the horses coming into the stretch. If I could get into the lead in the stretch, believe me, that would be tremendously helpful." In Maine, he reminded audiences that he had been born in Bar Harbor and cried...