Word: humphrey
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...pollsters predicted that John Kennedy would win nine of the state's ten Congressional districts from Hubert Humphrey. The Massachusetts Senator carried only six districts, however, with a scant 56 per cent of the popular vote...
...odyssey of cockney mechanic Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) and missionary Rose (Katharine Hepburn) down uncharted African waters suggests tense comedy-melodrama: they must, after all, evade rifle fire, skirt rapids, fix boilers, swat flies, brave swamps, remove leeches, blow up German cruisers, and fall in love. Regardless, Huston injects the action with mechanical uncaring: Allnut and Rose talk genially in medium close shot, one of them looks off-screen, says "Look!", and Huston cuts to what they see; he resorts to this lethargic montage in introducing enemy troops, the fort, all rapids, and the boat Louisa. The repetition of dramatic technique...
...thinking people in this country." Richard Nixon and others zeroed in on the commission's failure to place heavy blame on the rioters themselves. "I think," said Nixon, "the commission has put undue emphasis on the idea that we are in effect a racist society." Vice President Hubert Humphrey also had some doubts about the commission's conclusion that the U.S. was moving toward a form of apartheid. "It may be true, although it is open to some challenge," he said. "If it becomes a nightmare reality, it will be because our free society failed." Said New York...
...Minnesota senior Senator took the three Minneapolis-St. Paul district with 60 to 70 per cent of the vote. Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey has always been strong in his home area, and Tuesday's results are regarded by many observers as a strong rebuff. Four members of his own family, including his own son and daughter, were defeated in the voting for district delegates in the McCarthy landslide...
...President had little time to read it before it was published." But apparently he had read enough. The commission asserted that "our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal." In what may be the Administration's opening salvo at the report, Vice-President Humphrey said Tuesday that this conclusion "is open to challenge." The Administration is peeved that the Commission in its effort to determine the causes and cures for riots, did not see fit to praise past achievements of the Great Society...