Word: huron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more different men could hardly be imagined. There was Charles de Gaulle, soldier, statesman, and symbol of a nation's pride, who once wrote that a great leader must "possess something indefinable, mysterious." And there was Hubert Horatio Humphrey, the boy from the drug store in Huron, S. Dak., who likes to say that a politician must "never forget he's just one of the folks." Yet in their meeting last week amid the Louis XV antiques of Paris' Elysee Palace, the French President and the U.S. Vice President got on quite nicely together...
...Humphrey's foreign policy interests are not easily discouraged. After a one-day visit to Huron, S.D., to see his invalid mother and drop into his brother's drugstore (where he collected, as Brother Ralph put it, "enough bathroom supplies for six months"), Humphrey last week flew into Manhattan for conferences with Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson and lunch with members of the Security Council. One evening Humphrey and his wife Muriel saw Robert Preston in Ben Franklin in Paris, a musical show about the diplomatic old American who charmed the French into helping...
...plagued druggist. Apart from houses worth $36,000 in Chevy Chase, Md., and $28,000 in Waverly, Minn., and assorted Government and corporate securities worth $86,302, Hubert listed $6,215 in a checking account, $1,026 in two savings accounts, $3,900 invested in his father's Huron, S. Dak., pharmacy and "approximately $100" in hand...
...vote. (She went straight Republican.) Then he flew to Bay City, marched up and down Washington Avenue, stopped off at a garment factory to shake the hands of the women workers, got back into his plane to head for a round of electioneering in Port Huron. In that city, he slid behind the wheel of a new Rambler and chauffeured a 75-year-old spinster to the polls. On the way, Salesman Romney asked his passenger if she had ever before been in a Rambler. "No," said she with a twinkle, "but I've done quite...
...rambling days. Another day was spent in constant calls for quorum, in which only six minutes were spent on debate. In frantic attempts to muster a quorum on a summer Saturday, Senate Democratic leaders summoned Senators to Washington from as far away as Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, even dispatched a Navy PT boat to fetch three Democrats from the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, cruising off Norfolk, Va. At one point, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, acting as majority leader in the absence of Montana's Mike Mansfield, considered ordering the sergeant at arms to place absent Senators under...