Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SUNDAY: The Caine Mutiny. Despite the teapot typhoons. Edward Dmytryk's 1954 sea drama is a powerful film with a devastating court martial climax. Humphrey, CH. 7. Noon. Color. 2 hrs. The Day the Earth Steed Still. Michael Rennie descends from an allen space rover to demand that Earth abandon nuclear testing in one of the early Sci.Fi greats. CH. 56. Noon...
...most unusual call to rally round Richard Nixon's upcoming inauguration comes from his old Democratic adversary Hubert Humphrey. In a 60-second TV spot he made at the request of the President's inaugural committee, Humphrey delivers a nonpartisan plea for American unity-a happy thought that he agreed to pass on before the bombing of North Viet Nam resumed. Humphrey went ahead with the taping despite the raids, but as an aide said curtly: "It's not a policy endorsement...
...quarter-of-an-inch a day," he declares. To date, he has covered considerably more territory than that. As soon as he was elected chairman, he chatted with McGovern and Ted Kennedy. Last week he saw George Wallace and made plans to talk to George Meany, Edmund Muskie and Humphrey. "The first thing we've got to do," he says, "is to take the bitterness and rancor out of our political discourse. It started at Chicago in 1968 and it has never abated...
...corruption in the Boyle regime. After the Yablonski shooting, two U.M.W. officials, one of them a close Boyle associate, were indicted for conspiracy to commit murder, and Boyle was convicted by a federal jury of handing out $49,000 in union funds to political candidates, among them Hubert Humphrey. But they also mistrusted Boyle for other reasons. He had grown aloof and unreachable. He lived high and dressed fancy, and though he won fat wage increases for his men, he seemed oblivious to the occupational hazards of mining...
Died. José Limón, 64, one of the creators of the American modern dance; of cancer; in Flemington, N.J. Mexican-born Limón turned from painting to the dance in 1928, beginning a lifelong association with the pioneer teacher and choreographer Doris Humphrey. Under her guidance Limón began choreographing his own dances, but by the late 1940s had his own group, and with Mentor Humphrey as artistic director, polished his austere, flowing style. His major works include Missa Brevis and Emperor Jones. He is best remembered for The Moor's Pavane, created...