Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than 500 Washington notables were invited to TIMEs golden-anniversary dinner. They included legislative experts, scholars, newsmen and members of the Executive Branch. But the largest number were from the Congress. House Speaker Carl Albert and Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott assessed the role and powers of Congress. In addition, six other members participated-Senators Hubert H. Humphrey, Adlai Stevenson III and Ernest Hollings, and Representatives Patsy Mink, Gerald Ford and John Anderson...
...Cowens is an unorthodox lefthander who came late to basketball. Raised in Newport, Ky., he was a swimmer until his junior year in high school, which is probably why he was overlooked by most of the big Midwestern colleges and finally recruited through the mail by Florida State Coach Hugh Durham. "I sent a lot of postcards to high school coaches," explains Durham, "and Dave's coach at Newport Catholic answered. Cowens wasn't a great scorer, but he could rebound, and that's what we needed." That was also what Celtic President Red Auerbach was looking...
...relation between the President and the press," says Hugh Sidey, "should be as friendly enemies. We are concerned with what really happens rather than what the White House tells us, and frequently there are differences." Sidey's education in those distinctions started in 1960, when he covered John Kennedy's campaign for TIME. He then served as White House correspondent and began contributing a column to LIFE, an enterprise he continued after becoming TIME's Washington bureau chief. When LIFE ceased publication, we decided that Sidey's personal view of the President and the office...
...deep and abiding respect for the individual rights and prerogatives of each Senator that is both his main strength and his mam weakness. Says one colleague: "Mansfield tries to lead within the confines and strictures of this goddam institution, but we need stronger leadership." His Republican counterpart, Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, has been similarly criticized. A pipe-puffing moderate, Scott can grandstand if necessary but prefers low-key methods. He and Mansfield are good friends and work well together, despite certain differences on the Administration and the Viet Nam War. Mansfield, a harsh critic of the Nixon Administration...
...SENATOR HOWARD BAKER, 47, is a brash and bright Republican from Tennessee who waited only three years after his first election in 1966 to challenge Hugh Scott for the party's Senate minority leadership. He lost, but gained stature in defeat...