Word: humphrey
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...guarantor of happiness or security. Schickel reels off the familiar tragedies of those who found there was no room at the top: John Belushi, Freddie Prinze, Dylan Thomas, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe. Yet some of the deceased, like proper legends, have regained their power in death. Humphrey Bogart is a greater celebrity now than when he was alive; so is John Lennon. The fade-out has become as important in life as onscreen; no wonder Hollywood repartee has become standardized: "Elvis Presley is dead." "Good career move...
...only auto executive to make a serious run for the presidency, had no groundswell pushing him along in 1968. How would Iacocca run in 1988? Most pros believe that Iacocca could be politically popular. Like Eisenhower, his worldly achievement is impressive; his Trumanesque candor is bracing; and like Hubert Humphrey or Ronald Reagan, he brims with joie de vivre. Indeed, says Califano, "Reagan and Lee are similar. Both say flat out what they think. There aren't any hidden agendas." Wendell Larsen, a former executive under Iacocca at Chrysler, elaborates on the Reagan analogy. "Some of the things...
When some of the children alleged last October that one to six youngsters had been murdered, almost all of the child-abuse charges were dropped pending a new investigation by State Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III. Last week Humphrey's task force, which included agents from the FBI and the Minnesota bureau of criminal apprehension, released a 29-page report concluding that no murders had been committed. Moreover, the study harshly criticized the original investigation. Said Humphrey: "The manner in which the Scott County cases were handled has resulted in it being impossible to determine, in some cases, whether...
...been attributed to Morris and her office. The prosecutor apparently played a major role in conducting intensive, prolonged, exhausting interviews with the children. In one case, authorities talked to a nine-year-old girl 20 times, yet there were only four written reports on her sessions. According to the Humphrey report, children were sometimes interviewed together and had a great deal of contact with one another, which could have resulted in the "cross-germination" of allegations. Under questioning from Humphrey's task force, many of the children retracted their stories. One boy who had claimed to have witnessed a teenager...
...Humphrey last week described the initial investigation as a tragedy. "The children have clearly suffered," he said. "They have been subjected to a process which undermined their credibility, and as a result, individuals who may have committed sexual abuse will not be prosecuted...