Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like millions of Americans, I wish Senator Humphrey [Oct. 18] well. I am sure that in not too many weeks the Senator will be back in the mainstream of life. His misfortune in needing radical bladder surgery, and having public attention called to it, may turn out to be good fortune for thousands of others...
...Humphrey's cystectomy was successful, and I'm delighted. My father underwent identical surgery and it was also successful, but it cost him a substantial portion of his life savings. Mr. Humphrey's costs were "largely covered by his federal medical insurance." I don't begrudge his insurance benefits, but somehow...
First Happy's and Betty's breasts and now Hubert Humphrey's bladder; thank God I'm not a public figure, or my private health would also be dissected by your literary scalpel...
...knows how to be cutting. A few years ago, he touched off feminist outrage by suggesting that women might be unfit for the presidency because of their "raging hormonal influences." Unchastened, the Maryland doctor-author, who limits his practice these days to a few old friends, including Senator Hubert Humphrey,* has now taken on a new adversary. In an outrageously satiric book titled The Solid Gold Stethoscope (Macmillan; $7.95), he lays open the foibles and failings of his fellow doctors...
Nationally, an NBC News survey found, Catholics voted 56 per cent for Carter. That was three points less than Humphrey's share and about 20 or more points below Johnson's and Kennedy's margins in the elections...