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...from trigger-happy rivals than from the cops. But the trend has prompted police to change their tactics. The prevalence of bulletproof vests not only forces officers to aim for the head if a gun-wielding suspect does not fall after being shot in the chest. It also, says Hubert Williams, president of the Washington-based Police Foundation, makes them more likely to shoot first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: A Vested Interest | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...best passages in the book recounts the campaign of 1968, a year of tragedy and stress. Nixon capitalized on the turmoil, playing to Main Street's abhorrence of disorder. Yet he also threaded his way between the extremism of George Wallace and the ambivalence of Hubert Humphrey. Nixon's caution almost enabled Humphrey to recoup in the final days, but the Republican knew his constituency well enough to squeeze out a puny plurality. Over the next four years, he built that slight advantage into a mighty force despite the agony of Viet Nam. Ambrose leaves his protagonist in inexplicable melancholy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Martyr Or Machiavelli? | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...bargain, a cheap way to see one's heroes at work. But now they're a pricey entertainment. For a preseason box seat at aging Tinker Field in Orlando, the Minnesota Twins charge $7, about what it costs for an average seat during the regular season at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis. In 1991 the Twins are scheduled to move to a new complex in Fort Myers. "Spring training is a very special time unique to baseball," says Dean Vogelaar, Kansas City Royals vice president for public relations. "But it's a tourist crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Spring's Old Sweet Song | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...Hubert de Ronceray, a conservative political leader, said those dismissals might have triggered the coup attempt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Violence Breaks Out in Haitian Capital | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...fiction writers would have dared to imagine such a debacle. Outside the convention hall: the massed outrage of the counterculture -- antiwar activists, Viet Cong supporters, Yippies (who brought along their own presidential candidate, a porker named Pigasus). Within: the political machine that rumbled forward to confirm Hubert Horatio Humphrey as its nominee. Between the two sides: heavily armed National Guardsmen and the burly, blue- shirted Chicago police, the armed forces of Mayor Richard C. Daley, whose clubbing and gassing of demonstrators brought a new term into the American lexicon -- "police riot." When the beating and rock throwing stopped, the Democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics | 2/2/1989 | See Source »

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