Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noted the series of photos showing Humphrey with assorted personages from 1960 to 1967. The 1960 picture caught my eye: Humphrey was very noticeably white-haired; now his hair is virtually black. Is this a New Dawn for the Vice President? Only his hairdresser knows for sure. Come to think of it, there may be a Lady Clairol lurking behind the scenes even for non-greying, 58-year-old Ronald Reagan...
...vote spread itself was hardly overwhelming. In the record turnout of 764,000 Democrats. Kennedy got 42% of the vote; Governor Roger Branigin, who adopted a favorite-son stance as Humphrey's not-so-secret ally, received 31%; McCarthy polled 27%. While Kennedy failed both to roll up a ma jority and to demolish McCarthy, the timing of his first-place finish and his surprisingly broad base of support gave the New Yorker's campaign a solid, if less than meteoric, boost...
...Hubert Humphrey: We're about where we were...
Survival Power. The victory was worth every dollar to Kennedy. It was his first real test as a candidate this year, and a loss might well have crippled him. The win would have been sweeter, of course, had it been against his prime opponent, Hubert Humphrey, but Humphrey's name will be on no presidential primary ballots this year. On the same day that Kennedy carried Indiana, however, a Kennedy slate of delegates defeated pro-Humphrey candidates with surprising ease in the District of Columbia primary-a contest that Humphrey, with better organizational work, might have won. Kennedy will...
...particularly opportune time for Kennedy to begin looking like a ballot-box strong man. Humphrey's campaign has been steadily picking up momentum. A Congressional Quarterly survey of Democratic Senators and Representatives showed Humphrey favored as the party's "strongest" candidate by a margin of 4 to 1 over Kennedy, 11 to 1 over McCarthy. On the eve of last week's voting, Humphrey bested Kennedy in Louis Harris poll pairings against both Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller...