Word: humphreyism
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Confirmation is but half a mile away. No presidential candidate is in Manchester today, but there is a political gathering. At the pastel-carpeted office of New Hampshire's recently elected Republican Senator, Gordon Humphrey, people are lined up to chat about problems that rarely change, whoever is President...
...time natives of Key West -such as Harry Morgan, Hemingway's one-armed rumrunner, who was played by Humphrey Bogart in the movie -are known as Conchs, after the crusty mollusks that abound off that southernmost Florida island. Like Morgan, they are given to drinking in seedy bars, fishing in the Gulf Stream and insulting tourists. Nowadays the tide of tourism is enough to make the Harry Morgans pull up anchor and put out to sea. The place known affectionately as "the Last Resort" is fashionable again...
...avid members of the shin-splint generation, and six of them suited up one morning at sunrise to puff on the mall. Despite a wind-chill factor of 0°, Wyoming's Senator Alan Simpson, 47, Virginia's John Warner, 51, New Hampshire's Gordon Humphrey, 38, Minnesota's David Durenberger, 44, South Dakota's Larry Pressler, 36, and Iowa's Roger Jepsen, 50, enjoyed their informal caucus. Says Simpson: "It clears away...
...chance to correct the mistakes of other politicians who were elected in the first place to undo the modifications of the reforms of the earlier politicians, the parties will turn to revered senior statesmen, men with images, with romantic support, with possibility--and nominate Nelson Rockefeller and Hubert Humphrey...
...lose, power and authority in modern history. At noon, Vice President Walter Mondale gaveled the Senate to order. In time-honored tradition, the new Senators were escorted by the incumbent Senators from their states to the rostrum, where they took the oath of office. Only New Hampshire Republican Gordon Humphrey ruffled Senate sensibilities by refusing to be escorted by his Democratic counterpart, John Durkin...