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MINNESOTA. Democrat Hubert Humphrey III cried out to voters to stop comparing him with his beloved late father and start weighing him against his opponent, Senator Dave Durenberger. They have, and it may be helping. "Skip" Humphrey, the state's attorney general, has been slinging dirt at Durenberger on character issues. But Durenberger's senatorial bearing and flawless environmental record have given him a lead. If Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer- Labor Party is of a mind to, it could still rescue Humphrey...
Only three Presidents in this century have had the opportunity to campaign for their Vice President to succeed them. Dwight Eisenhower passed up the opportunity to exert himself on behalf of Richard Nixon, who lost in 1960. Lyndon Johnson was not asked to campaign for Hubert Humphrey, and he lost too. This time both the President and his Vice President feel they have something to gain by sticking together...
Order in the court, for Federal Judge Hubert I. Teitelbaum of Pittsburgh, apparently means keeping women in their place. During a civil proceeding, Teitelbaum, 73, threatened Attorney Barbara Wolvovitz with jail because she insisted on referring to herself as Ms. Wolvovitz rather than Mrs. Lobel, after her husband. Protesting in her behalf, Wolvovitz's co-counsel Jon Pushinsky found himself held in contempt and handed a 30-day suspended sentence for "officious intermeddling." When Wolvovitz asked for a mistrial last week, Teitelbaum said, "What if I call you sweetie...
...most unhappy I ever saw Hubert Humphrey was when he was Vice President...
Police agencies readily admit that they can learn a lot about a person by examining household garbage. Both the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration regularly engage in trash searches, as do many police departments. "People throw away all kinds of things," observes Hubert Williams, president of the Police Foundation. "Phone numbers, trace evidence, bank statements -- you'd be amazed." Most lower courts that have reviewed police trash searches have given them the green light, and now that the high bench has done the same, more detectives can be expected to prowl through refuse...