Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knopf said that moving the Harvard Business Review from Gallatin House would leave that smaller building free for faculty offices. He said that two newer buildings built there in the past year, Humphrey and Dillon Houses, were similar to Gallatin House and were meant exclusively for faculty offices...
Inside the park Senator Brooke, another pioneer of sorts, was making his way to the seat where Ted Kennedy had sat the day before. Kennedy and Humphrey were gone, and one admired Brooke for eschewing tokenism. Yesterday, like the proverbial black boy who doesn't want to be pushy, he had not even notified the management of his presence. He had sat unnoticed in the recesses in right field with his family. Now it seemed fitting that he should be rewarded for his humility with a front row seat...
...opportunists were killing us. Just as Williams started back to the dugout, Vice President Humphrey--an ardent Minnesota fan, don't you know--made his carefully timed entrance into front row seats where he stood next to Ted Kennedy. Photographers pushed in close, Hubert worked himself into a frenzy of smiles, and Williams trotted by unnoticed...
Aeschylus, Athens & Ice Cream. In Montevideo, Minn., Lady Bird visited an old-folks home and an urban-renewal project. In nearby Waverly, Mrs. Hubert Humphrey showed her a bookmobile and artmobile and fed her homemade ice cream on the lawn. In Minneapolis-which hardly qualifies as a village-she suffered nobly through Tyrone Guthrie's The House of Atreus, a 31-hour version of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy. In Columbus, Ind., "the Athens of the Prairie," she listened to the American National Opera Company and praised the striking smalltown, big-name architecture (including work by such distinguished designers...
Flypaper Memory. Director of the U.S. Bureau of the Census from 1961 to 1965, Scammon, 52, comes to his role steeped in statistics and unafraid of conclusions. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a longtime Minnesota friend, calls Scammon "one of the smartest men in town," adds: "He isn't just a statistician-he's a profound and deep student." British Political Scientist Harold Laski, under whom Scammon studied for a year at the London School of Economics, pronounced him "the ablest American student I ever had." CBS's Washington Commentator Eric Sevareid, a University of Minnesota classmate, ascribes...