Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coast of Maine, Edmund Sixtus Muskie last week spent eight minutes and $35,000 on national television to confirm what everyone already knew-that he was a candidate for his party's nomination for the presidency. A few days later Richard Nixon quietly followed suit. This week Hubert Humphrey was all set to end the non-suspense over his intentions with a speech in Philadelphia, thus formalizing the contest between the two 1968 Democratic running mates. In themselves, the declarations will have small effect on the relative positions of the candidates of either party; the President has a firm...
...idea of a musical based upon the Ghetto Experience is as excitingly original as the kick-off for the latest Humphrey for President campaign, but if Hubert was as imaginative and charming as The Me Nobody Knows it would Standing Room Only on Capitol Hill. The show, which comes to Boston after long runs in New York and across the country, is based on the writings of New York City school children between the ages of 7 through 18. The texts are combined with music and dancing to create a series of episodes with a few recurrent themes...
...kind when it opened in New York off-Broadway. Then its rhetoric, its "message" might have fit in and been original. But it was followed by some inferior shows that droned on the same theme so that now it cannot help but seem somewhat hackneyed. And Hubert Humphrey was a great Mayor of Minneapolis...
...tone of the proceedings was established early in the week during an appearance by former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who came to discuss ways of ensuring peace. His talk was repeatedly disrupted by catcalls; one young scientist even hurled a tomato at the Minnesota Senator (the missile missed). Muttered the tomato thrower as he was led off by police: "I could have hit him between the eyes if I wanted to." In a counterprotest, former Presidential Aide Daniel Moynihan, now a professor at Harvard and a newly elected A.A.A.S. vice president, angrily canceled his own planned speech (title: "Waste Disposal...
Some A.A.A.S. leaders sympathized so strongly with the dissenters that they went out of their way to praise the petulant protests. Environmentalist Barry Commoner, who is a member of the association's board of directors, rebuked Moynihan for his walkout and said that the protests against Humphrey may well have stiffened the Senator's disapproval of U.S. policies in Southeast Asia, which Commoner also has heartily denounced. Added retiring A.A.A.S. President Athelstan Spilhaus: "If there weren't these disruptions, it would mean that these meetings were not significant...