Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even liberal Minnesota was caught in the tax-cutting tide. In the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's primary for Hubert Humphrey's Senate seat, Congressman Donald Eraser was narrowly defeated by a conservative millionaire businessman, Robert Short. Eraser was one of the few Democratic candidates who still defended costly social programs. Short called Eraser's liberalism a "burden on the people" and urged a $100 billion slash in the federal budget. Even the Republican Senate candidate, Dave Durenberger, is less of a budget cutter than Short, an indication of the upheaval in the once powerful D.F.L...
...BWCA has long been roiled by Evinrudes and Johnsons. Even after it was included in the 1964 National Wilderness Preservation Act-making it by far the largest region of its kind east of the Rockies-logging and motorboating continued under an amendment sponsored by the late Senator Hubert Humphrey. But lumbering has since been voluntarily suspended and will be permanently outlawed under legislation slowly making its way through the political thickets of Capitol Hill. So environmentalists are now concentrating their ire on the remaining target: motorized recreational vehicles...
Residents of northern Minnesota are strongly opposed to the bill, leveling much of their anger at its cosponsor, Representative Donald M. Fraser, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's nominee for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Muriel Humphrey. But they are also annoyed by Minnesota's other U.S. Senator, Wendell R. Anderson. He had been counted on to champion fewer restrictions in the BWCA, but recently threw his support behind a tougher compromise bill, scheduled for a Senate vote this month, that also cuts back on the use of motorized vehicles...
...often tasteless. Staging a counterattack on one of Bobby's anti-Viet Nam War speeches, the Johnson White House "exhumed," as Schlesinger has it, James A. Farley, a distinguished elder of the Democratic Party. Throughout, R.F.K.'s opponents are made to look asinine or worse. Hubert Humphrey "chirruped." On the hustings in 1968, Kennedy is consistently praised for his ability to rouse mass audiences to a pitch of righteous frenzy; Lyndon Johnson, meanwhile, "pounded the podium and shouted about the war." At Martin Luther King's funeral in Atlanta, Kennedy was asked by an English friend where...
Little Betty Perske from Brooklyn grew up into Lauren Bacall, long-legged, throaty-voiced actress and wife of Humphrey Bogart and Jason Robards. Soon readers will learn "the whole story," as she puts it, in her first book, Lauren Bacall By Myself, to be published in January. Her contract with Knopf "came along at a time in my life when I didn't know what I was going to do," says Bacall, 53. The autobiography, which describes her marriages and her affair with Frank Sinatra, will "tell much more about me than I ever thought people should know," says...