Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...building also came in for some deservedly devastating comments. At Tuesday's preview, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey had declared: "It has class, dignity. I love it." But many disagreed with Humphrey. New York Times Architecture Critic Ada Louise Huxtable called the building "a superbunker. One more like this and the city will sink. The corridors would be great for drag racing...
...first rank with Muskie are: HUBERT HUMPHREY. Never expert at hiding his feelings, Humphrey clearly wants to try again. "I've got my sails up," he told reporters when he turned 60 last May. "I'm testing the waters." He allowed that he might enter the New York and California primaries next spring if the early heats fail to produce a winner. His centrist campaign contributors are waiting for him, still holding out on Muskie or anyone else; Humphrey has asked them to keep their purses locked until November. Labor still likes him. He is well known...
...federal-expenditure adjustments added up to "a minor bonanza mostly for the rich." Robert M. Williams, director of a U.C.L.A. forecasting service, predicted that the rate of unemployment, currently at a painful 5.8%, would fall by only .5% as a result of the program. Senators William Proxmire and Hubert Humphrey, among others, hinted that the new Nixonomics may be due for some design changes when it reaches the Senate...
...movie Two Lane Blacktop calls for virtuoso acting, and gets it-from a 43-year-old veteran of a hundred movie and television westerns named Warren Gates. Still little known to the public, Oates is now being described by directors as a new Paul Muni, a John Garfield, a Humphrey Bogart...
Today the bidding jumps at the rate of $150 per second, often to six figures. Humphrey Finney has passed the company presidency on to his son John. The new $500,000 pavilion, used but one week a year, features more than a thousand cushioned chairs, an art exhibit, and closed-circuit television inside and out. Still, the sales at Saratoga -American racing's most traditional and posh resort-are essentially unchanged since that evening in 1918 when Samuel Riddle bid up to $5,000 for a handsome chestnut colt. They named him Man O' War, and Fasig-Tipton...