Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Problems & Precedent. .Talmadge's stem-winding oratory was deflated by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, whose Middle Eastern trip last month made him a firmer advocate of Eisenhower foreign policy. "If one wishes to engage in finding very little blisters on the trunk of the great oak tree," said Democrat Humphrey, "it is possible to make it appear that the oak is almost ready to collapse, or that it never should have been a tree in the first place. But if one considers the totality of the program and does not concentrate on a little error here...
...bridge of Saratoga.* With him was an all-star Government audience for whom the Navy could hoist its message. From Washington had come Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (who talks up but has seldom witnessed the military muscles of the U.S. in action), retiring Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, Atomic Storekeeper Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson and an articulate handful of Navy brass, from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke to Atlantic Fleet Commander Jerauld Wright...
...tightlipped, Cinemactress Lauren Bacall told newsmen that she planned to sell the 14-room Hollywood mansion where she and her husband, Cinema Hard Guy Humphrey Bogart, lived until he died of cancer in January. "I don't feel sorry for myself," she said, "but there are too many associations. I can't live here any more." Also soon to be up for sale: Bogie's 55-ft. yawl, the Santana...
...Humphrey noted that as Nasser talked about his own country he seemed "happy and positive." But when he spoke of the international scene, he became bitter, cynical and critical. "If you would concentrate your talents and energies on the political and economic development of Egypt," advised Humphrey, "you would be making a real contribution to the world, but your fishing in international waters will lead to nothing but trouble. Why dabble in great international matters when you have so many economic troubles at home that need your attention?" Nasser smiled and shrugged away the question...
Remarkable Restraint. One point of current diplomacy that impressed Humphrey: when Nasser spoke of Israel, he seemed remarkably restrained. Possibly he was feeling his way toward some face-saving way of settling the problems of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. Humphrey's final reassurance on behalf of the U.S.: "We don't want a grain of sand from your deserts, a stone from your pyramids, or a drop of water from your canal. We don't even want your gratitude. All we want is peace...