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...Hubert Humphrey...
...following the show. A Best Actor can ask for a half-million dollars plus percentage of the profits in his next movie. A Best Supporting Actor jack nicholson can become Jack Nicholson. A cliche maybe, but you can feel the goddamn tension. It's like you have Scoop, Mo, Hubert, Ed and Lloyd, and one of them is going to get it on television in an envelope, instead of watching the action in the privacy of a hotel suite. Do you think any of them wouldn't lose his bowels on the spot right there...
...Quad Houses where there are more unfilled spaces. For many students the fact that the Radcliffe Houses to which they are assigned place them at 29 Garden Street only adds insult to injury "I came to Harvard to go to Harvard and not some grungy hotel," declares Hubert Lenczowski '76 heatedly. Lenczowski now lives in Eliot House. Being put into the Continental was "the stupidest idea that ever happened," he says...
...liberal Javits who unexpectedly supplied the pivotal vote-startling even Ford-as a subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to provide $125 million in emergency aid and $90 million for humanitarian help (such as food and medical supplies). Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who chaired the subcommittee, argued that Cambodia's military situation was "hopeless," the Lon Nol government was too weak to negotiate and the Administration wanted the aid merely to show that the U.S. had not "copped out." Javits contended that one final injection of help could make negotiations more likely by "continuing some level of resistance...
...return for giving his vice-presidential papers to the Minnesota Historical Society, Senator Hubert Humphrey deducted $199,153 from his federal tax returns for 1969 through 1972. Last week the Minnesota Democrat said that the Internal Revenue Service had disallowed the deductions, and that he will reimburse the Government for the back taxes, plus 6% annual interest. The settlement will cost him as much as $147,000, according to one estimate. His salary as a Senator is $42,500 a year, but he also earns substantial amounts from speeches...