Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jets that bring them so swiftly. They soon are dumped back into the realities of Detroit and New York. But the memories mingle and linger: supreme of pheasant smitane, Rockefeller, Harriman, Dillon, chestnut mousse, Bob Stack, Nanette Fabray, De La Renta, Alsop, filet of salmon in aspic, Cronkite, Swearingen, Humphrey, Schramsberg blanc de noir, Auchincloss. Watching from the dim corners of the old Decatur House on Lafayette Square, where the ladies went for tea, or inside the stately Anderson House, where Sadat the next day returned the White House favors with a dinner, one could see that...
Paranoia in a different shape turns up in The Caine Mutiny, a Dudley House offering at Lehman Hall. Humphrey Bogart plays the psychotic Captain Queeg, a petty tyrant with some strange habits. When you've seen the movie, you'll understand why at the end of Watergate top level aides were comparing Nixon to the ball-bearing-rolling skipper...
Some time after his return to the U.S., Wallace plans to announce his candidacy for the presidency. A Louis Harris survey last summer gave him 14% of the vote among Democrats and independents; Hubert Humphrey followed with 12%, and Henry Jackson and Edmund Muskie with 10% each. But the same poll showed that more Democrats and independents-39%-would vote against Wallace than against any other candidate...
...William Simon goes in front of the Joint Economic Committee, he opposes renewing the tax rebates, he condemns budget deficits, he attacks public service employment, and he refuses to entertain the possibility of giving aid to New York City. Simon inspired the Quote of the Month from Senator Hubert Humphrey for his obstructionist tactics...
Baseball is no longer king in Boston as the Series has ended and life, including movie going, has returned to normal. Those whose tastes run to star-studded double features (and not a re-run of the sixth game) can catch either Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (adventure on the Congo) and Treasure of the Sierra Madre (adventure south of the Border) at the Harvard Square Theatre or brave the Red Line to see Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail and Five Easy Pieces at Cinema...