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Pauline Kael, at one time arguably the best film critic in operation, has turned into the Hubert Humphrey of film criticism. She comes on chatty and playful when talking about film techniques, valuing good stars above acting and sensual excess over rigor, all the time letting us know that under that tigress bite of hers beats a heart which overflows with sympathy. She makes sufficient noises in the vague directions of liberalism to insure our recognition that she cares in the correct way about moral and political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient...
...joys of the good life in Palm Springs that some of his friends think that he might just chuck Washington completely when his term is over. For anyone who has been just one step away from the Oval Office, however, such a retreat is most unlikely. Just ask Hubert Humphrey−or Richard Nixon...
...held the peace demonstrators responsible for "prolonging the war. Their hands are stained with the blood of American G.I.s." He said that he had been tortured in an unsuccessful effort to force him to meet with a group of U.S. war protesters who were visiting Hanoi. Air Force Major Hubert Flesher offered a minority opinion that the U.S. had lost a war it never should have entered. "It was a conflict between the Vietnamese people, and like it or not, it should have been theirs to decide...
Mitten appealed to Senators Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine), Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mt.), Senate minority leader Hugh Scott (R-Penn.), J.W. Fulbright (D-Ark.), George McGovern (D-S.D.), Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.), Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), and several others...
After two days the mystery was resolved. Hubert Massol, 35, a right-wing candidate for the National Assembly and a veteran of the Algerian war, held a press conference in Paris at which he boasted that he alone knew where the body was. "I will keep my secret," he said, "until the President of the Republic rehabilitates Pétain, and his remains are transferred to Douaumont...