Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California BROWN v. FLOURNOY In another year, facing an opponent with a less familiar name, Houston I. ("Hugh") Flournoy, 45, might have been a different candidate in a different kind of race...
...this campaign," he declares. Nor does he display much passion himself except in infrequent face-to-face encounters with Edmund G. ("Jerry") Brown Jr., 36, in which he emerges as a match for the front runner. "Sometimes I wish I had an electric prod," says a Flournoy staffer. "Hugh is so good. But he comes on like Sominex...
...growing debate led some Republicans to accuse Democrats of letting the nomination simmer for partisan reasons. Said Senate Republican Whip Robert P. Griffin of Michigan: "It's hard to tell where the serious questions about this nomination leave off and the politics begin." Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania called the controversy "mewling and puking hypocrisy" and added: "I don't think that he ought to be convicted for his generosity...
...there not a distinction between a gift to Hugh Morrow, who is on your personal staff, and one to Henry Kissinger, who had left your employ [as a consultant on foreign policy] to become President Nixon's Assistant for National Security Affairs...
...Hugh Wolff made his debut as the new conductor, and ingeniously elicited the most sensitive performance I have heard from the Bach Society Orchestra. He was lucky to be conducting a select group of talented musicians--who were attracted to the Society in the first place by his reputation and his fresh, enterprising programming. This year's concerts will include works of Bach, Beethoven, Ravel, Mahler and Stravinsky...