Word: hubertism
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...OTHERS WOULD have Dole attempt to move the party toward his own brand of pragmatic conservatism. They pine for the old Dole, the Dole who joined with George McGovern to start the food-stamp program; the Dole who pushed for aids-research funds; the Dole who worked with Hubert Humphrey to turn the school-lunch program into a federal entitlement; the Dole who keeps a prayer celebrating tolerance on his desk...
...Ambassador to the U.S., Andrei Gromyko, to learn English by listening to sermons in American churches. How Dobrynin, during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, communicated with Moscow via Western Union, which sent a bicycle messenger to pick up coded cables. How Moscow secretly offered financial aid to Vice President Hubert Humphrey for his 1968 presidential campaign against Richard Nixon (Humphrey declined the offer). How Soviet Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev got drunk while visiting Nixon at San Clemente and vilified Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Alexei Kosygin. Hours later, a sleepwalking First Lady Pat Nixon appeared in a nightgown...
...Time Warner, Minnecorp, J.P. Olson, Chase Minnesota. Presidential candidates will hold their big, $100,000-a-plate fund raisers in Minneapolis, will pledge their support for water diversification and mention that, conservative though they be, they've always had a soft spot in their hearts for Hubert Humphrey...
Audrey, Jackie and Grace are gone, but a crowd of HUBERT DE GIVENCHY'S peers, including Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino and Christian Lacroix came out to pay homage to the 68-year-old designer as he presented his last haute-couture collection ever. He departed with class, as he arrived, playing classical music and sharing his standing ovation with his entire atelier. Givenchy hands the bodkin of his eponymous house over to 34-year-old English designer JOHN GALLIANO, not such a classical-music kind of guy. Recently, Givenchy's relationship with his backers has been strained, but the couturier...
There has always been an intimacy between powerful editors and their favorite powerful designers: legendary Vogue editor in chief Diana Vreeland with Hubert de Givenchy and Halston, the quid with the quo. But the magazine recession of the early 1990s, which intensified the scramble for ad pages everywhere, made the cozy relationships even cozier. During that period, design companies amassed even more advertising clout. The economic pressure has eased lately-for instance, ad pages through May are up 16% for Elle and 9% for Glamour over last year. Still, the compromises remain...