Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hubert Humphrey's quest for the presidency was finally, unquestionably over. In April, he had said he wasn't running but that night, after nominating his protege, Walter Mondale, for vice-president and blessing the ticket--the message was finally sinking in. It was all over. In two months would come cancer surgery and the beginning of a long fight destined to leave him without much chance even to view as an observer the presidential politics of the post-Humphrey years...
...that, Humphrey didn't end up the embittered man so many others would have become. His dying, like his living, was done in public. It was characterized by the same boundless optimism that animated his life in politics. In the last several months one came to realize that the "politics of joy" he preached were a little less corny than many would have cared to admit a few years ago, his zestful public spirit a little more affecting...
...that, Miller is nonetheless a registered Democrat, was an early supporter of the Humphrey-Muskie ticket in 1968 and has long been a friend and admirer of Vice President Walter Mondale. He has expressed sympathy for the unemployed by his actions as well as his words: he is a director of both the National Alliance of Businessmen, a group that tries to encourage hiring of the hard-core unemployed, and of a special business committee formed last summer to promote the training and hiring of Viet Nam veterans. In a speech to Pittsburgh businessmen last January, he not only advocated...
...River, The Big Sleep and Scarface; of complications from a concussion caused by a fall; in Palm Springs, Calif. "For me, the best drama is the one that deals with a man in danger," said Hawks, and the endangered men of his movies included such giants as Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, James Cagney and Gary Cooper, matched with sexy, strong-willed Hawksian discoveries such as Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth, Carole Lombard and Jane Russell. When French cineasts made a cult of the tall, quiet director, claiming for example that he "incarnates the classic American cinema," Hawks commented: "I get open...
...desk and rang up Anwar Sadat over in Cairo just as if he were on the phone to Plains. Carter filled in the Egyptian President on what he and Begin had discussed. Begin went off to visit his old friend Kissinger, then dropped in on the ailing Senator Hubert Humphrey. When Zbig rose at lunch at the Israeli embassy to toast the mutual commitment to a noble ideal, to "the birth of peace," the emotional response in the room startled almost everyone. And a little later Henry Kissinger, the enduring wit, could chortle, "We may be doomed to peace...