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During what should have been a routine Senate hearing on agriculture last week, Senator Hubert Humphrey found himself in the painful position of listening to George Wallace promise a rerun of 1968. While Humphrey stared grimly on, Wallace gave his most public declaration so far of his plans, noting that 1968 Democratic and American Independent Party candidates might "see each other again in 1972." Eugene McCarthy, the man who unhinged the Democratic Party in 1968, has made it clear to friends that he is ready to try again in '72, and a formal announcement is expected from him early...
...P.G.A. money list last year, made himself $52,000 richer by finishing No. 1 in both the Tucson and Doral-Eastern Opens. Then Brian Allin, 26, a redheaded rookie who weighs all of 145 Ibs., won the $38,000 top prize in the Greater Greensboro Open. Hubert Green, 24, yet another rookie, made off with $25,000 by winning the Houston Invitational...
...that the secrets of classification have been revealed, there is finally talk of changing the system. Goldberg proposed that Congress take more of a hand in deciding what is to be classified. Several Congressmen, in fact, are preparing to introduce legislation. Hubert Humphrey wants to establish a joint congressional committee to review classified material. Edmund Muskie would prefer an independent review board with the power to make documents public after two years. Even if Congress does not want to venture into the thicket of classified documents, the Executive Branch could impose stiff penalties on bureaucrats who classify more than they...
...hours, for every engagement. "The honorable Senator," observed a columnist in the Frankfurter Allgemeinc Zeitung, all of his umlauts drawn into an angry frown, "came, saw, and did not conquer." The Kennedys are not the only public figures who could use a personal timekeeper; so could Senator Hubert Humphrey and Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger. Actress Marilyn Monroe was notorious for never showing up for any appointment on time. Similarly tardy was Poet Dylan Thomas, who was not always able to pass up one more for the road...
...crown of my career" is the way Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Marie Antoine Hubert Luns describes his new post as NATO's civilian chief. The phrasing is apt. In his 19 years as The Netherlands' ranking diplomat, Luns, 59, has worked as hard for Western European unity and cooperation with the U.S. as any statesman on the Continent...