Word: hubertism
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...familiar, too talkative, too scarred, too compromised, just too much of everything-all of these terms have been applied to Hubert Horatio Humphrey. Then what is this? When a reporter last week asked President Ford whom he considered his likeliest opponent in the 1976 race, he replied, "Humphrey probably is as good a guess...
...then his defeat by George McGovern in the primaries of 1972, he seemed extinct. But within the past few weeks, the 64-year-old Minnesotan has risen from the political dead, looking more buoyant than ever. "There's no doubt about it," says Presidential Candidate Morris Udall, "Hubert has the bug again." Adds a top staffer at the Democratic National Committee: "The Humphrey talk is everywhere now. You hear it not only from state party people but from elected officials. You hear it from blacks, you hear it from unions. You hear it from moderates and extreme liberals...
...will be a great winter for girl watchers-and for girls who watch their figures. In show after show last week, as Paris couturiers unveiled their fall designs, last year's loose look yielded to slim, trim, body-conscious clothes. Hubert de Givenchy came out with a shape that Women's Wear Daily was quick to label "the TT-or Tight Torso." Pierre Cardin's bottom-cupping skirts cling as tightly as the skin on a peach. Yves Saint Laurent, couture's most influential designer, has also rediscovered the slim look, with cool, understated dresses...
...delegation from the U.S. Senate was in Moscow from June 29 to July 2 [led by Hubert Humphrey and Hugh Scott]. Reportedly, some of the Senators proposed a compromise whereby the Soviet leaders would promise to raise the emigration quota in exchange for the repeal of the [Jackson] amendment. This deal would be an inadmissible retreat on the part of Congress; indeed, it would be a capitulation because the right to emigrate has to be backed up by law if it is not going to be violated...
...which showed him trailing Ted Kennedy by 43% to 50% as recently as last April, now puts him in front by the same margin. A Georgia survey indicates that he is also strong among conservatives. In a state that gave George Wallace more votes than either Richard Nixon or Hubert Humphrey in 1968, Ford trounces the Alabaman...