Word: humphrey
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...much the West-and the U.S. Congress in particular-will tolerate for the sake of trade and better relations with the Soviet Union. Soviet treatment of Jews has already put most-favored-nation status for the U.S.S.R. in jeopardy in Congress (TIME, Sept. 25). Two weeks ago, Hubert Humphrey warned Premier Aleksei Kosygin and other officials in Moscow that congressional concern for the plight of Soviet Jews remains a serious obstacle to the conclusion of multibillion-dollar trade deals with Russia. Mass trials of dissidents like Yakir, who happens to be Jewish, are likely to provoke Congress further...
Above all, at 33, Liv is a far more seasoned and accomplished performer than most of the new faces that turn up in Hollywood. Humphrey Bogart was once asked who his favorite actor was. He named Spencer Tracy and gave as his reason: "Because you can't see the machinery working." With Liv, the machinery never shows either. Her previous work has already established that she not only has the unobtrusive yet authoritative presence called star quality but is also perhaps the most impeccably naturalistic actress in films today...
...which the President had already slated for the dustbin) so that the Russians could withdraw from Cuba and save a little face, the other government officials jumped on him and the proposal never received serious consideration. When the Vietcong attacked the American barracks at Pleiku in February. 1965, Hubert Humphrey opposed retaliators bombing against North Vietnam for the next several months he was shut out of meetings and cut off the memo circuit until in early 1906 the President subjected him to a humiliating trip to Vietnam and then let him rejoin the fraternity...
...want loyalty," he once said, "I want loyalty. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket," He wanted more than loyalty "Servility" might be a better word. After Hubert Humphrey gave a speech which seemed to take some personal credit for the Administration's education policies, Johnson called in the White House correspondents and remarked, "Boys, I've just reminded Hubert than I've got his balls in my pocket." The reminder was probably unnecessary...
...been appointing people from other sections of the party. Because she was shut out of any major role in the Mc-Govern campaign, she has had time to do a little work for herself. Thus her travels to see Wallace and other Southern Governors. Reminding people that she managed Humphrey's campaign in Utah in 1968, she insists: "I have run coalition politics in my own state, and I can do it here...