Word: humphrey
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Policy Planning. Despite pressure from members of the U.S. delegation in Rome-including Democratic Senators Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern and Richard Clark-Washington maintained its position that the conference is not "an aid-pledging forum" but a meeting to consider policy planning. After a week's silence, President Ford, citing inflation as an obstacle, turned down the delegation's request for an immediate 1 million ton increase in U.S. emergency food aid. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who headed the American delegation, accused the three Senators of acting for "partisan political gain," while arguing that the U.S. was already...
...Actress Katharine Hepburn is still the Brahmin beauty edged with bitchiness who gets her way. During her career she has matched her free-spirited will against the strongest male personalities in show business. John Barrymore, Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, Sir Laurence Olivier and Paul Scofield are among those who failed to upstage her. One star she had always wanted to work with was Wayne, and when she was offered the chance she snapped it up. "I decided to grab him before it was too late...
...SENATE HEARINGS during June and July, Senator Humphrey implied that a clean, well-financed government in Saigon might not necessarily include Thieu. Surprisingly, Ambassador Martin agreed; however, it was noted that a military coup would be, for public relations, a bad gamble. Last month the Ford administration sent General William Lansdale to South Vietnam. Lansdale is an ex-CIA agent who has been enshrined in the Pentagon papers for planning, along with Henry Cabot Lodge, the overthrow of Diem in 1963. Lansdale then headed the "pacification program" until Thieu banished him from the country, to make room for a safer...
...brandy to stanch the wound. But Heath was the first leader chosen by a vote under the 1965 reform rules, and no one at the time bothered to determine how he could be ousted. "I'm afraid my system wasn't all that well thought out," said Humphrey Berkeley, who drew up the rules. "It allows someone like Ted Heath, if he's stubborn enough, to be a life king...
...romantics becomes most evident in the movie theater, where films like Casablanca, La Guerre Est Finie and Five East Pieces attract people of both the realist and romantic schools. But their reactions to the films are likely to occupy opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. After watching Humphrey Bogart lose his women at the airport, after witnessing Yves Montand's dangerous political activities in France, after watching Jack Nicholson board a freight truck for Alaska, the realist is liable to yawn, comment that it was a "good flick," and go happily to Brigham's for ice cream before returning...