Word: hubertism
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...right where he has been -very much at Carter's side What ever happened to ... Lyndon, Hubert, Spiro, Jerry, Nelson...
Most adult scholars are interested in furthering their careers. Says Hubert Gibbs, dean of Boston University's adult Metropolitan College: "Our students are essentially upwardly mobile people who are looking for better jobs." Many women, either divorcees forced to support themselves or older women whose children are grown, return to school. Elizabeth Mayer, 63, wife of the president of Tufts University and mother of five children, finally earned her B.A. last year in Harvard's extension program, after dropping out of Vassar in the '30s. At first, she recalls, "it was horrible. Everyone was very young, very...
Audrey Hepburn wore his fashions in Breakfast at Tiffany 's. During the 1961 presidential visit to France, Jacqueline Kennedy dazzled an opera crowd at Versailles with her white Hubert de Givenchy. Now, to commemorate the 25th year of his couture house, Manhattan's B. Altman is staging a retrospective show of 70 Givenchy creations. Says the designer: "After I open a collection and see people trying on my clothes and treating them roughly, I suffer. My dresses are like my family...
...involvement in World War II. Jack and Robert Kennedy did wiretap newsmen and Martin Luther King Jr. Lyndon Johnson did employ the FBI for partisan political purposes in gathering intelligence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. The Kennedys did conduct a dirty campaign against Hubert Humphrey in the West Virginia primary...
...claims of a biased press, as in much of his book, Lasky is inconsistent. While he condemns the press as Nixon's worst enemy, he also argues that it overplayed the violence outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago-thereby hurting Hubert Humphrey. "The convention coverage undoubtedly helped tilt the closely contested election to Nixon," concedes Lasky. And while the author repeatedly accuses the press of a bloodthirsty pursuit of Nixon during Watergate, he also approvingly quotes an observation in Commentary that "it was not the press which exposed Watergate; it was the agencies of Government itself...