Word: humphrey
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...office led to convictions or guilty pleas for 27 aides and agents of former President Richard Nixon. Last week they were joined by a former top aide to a high-ranking Democrat. A federal court in Manhattan convicted Minneapolis Lawyer Jack L. Chestnut, 42, who managed Hubert Humphrey's comeback campaign for the Senate in 1970, of accepting $12,000 in illegal campaign contributions from Associated Milk Producers...
...case of Chestnut, Government witnesses testified that he had used the $12,000 to pay for two months of advertising work for Humphrey's Senate campaign. Bob A. Lilly, former assistant to the AMPI general manager, told the court that on Chestnut's instructions he had sent Chestnut two checks for $6,000 each...
Appearing as a prosecution witness, Humphrey admitted that he had sought the support of the milk cooperative, but said that he had "no personal knowledge" of the financial arrangements, which had been left to "the campaign committee and Mr. Chestnut." After the verdict was handed down, Chestnut reiterated his testimony that he could not recall making arrangements for the contribution. He also claimed that he had thought that all AMPI contributions to the campaign had come from the cooperative's legitimate political arm and not from its corporate funds. Chestnut plans to appeal. If the verdict is upheld...
...Rostropovitch and Conductor Leonard Bernstein. Baryshnikov has plunged eagerly into an investigation of American culture. He spends his spare time at plays, operas and especially movies. He is a considerable student of television, whether afternoon cartoons or old movies on the late show (he has worked up imitations of Humphrey Bogart's "Hello, sweetheart" and any number of commercial pitchmen). In a more Russian vein, he has begun reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose books fill him with "pain and awe," according to Mrs. Saunder...
...HUBERT HUMPHREY, 63, Democratic Senator from Minnesota and Lyndon Johnson's Vice President: "There's great sadness when you see the collapse of part of a country, when you see the incredible suffering, turmoil and panic which gripped so many. We shouldn't feel, though, that we've let anyone down. No outside force can save a country that lacks the will or political leadership. What we've learned is that there aren't American answers for every problem in the world. We made judgments about that part of the world based...