Word: jaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hubert Humphrey's act, says the mimic, is more like "a little old lady jumping up and down with excitement." In a precise, hinged-jaw imitation of the Vice President, Frye exclaims: "When I wake up in the morning, I say 'Whoopee!' When I go to bed at night, I say 'Whoopee!' And I want to say I'm proud as Punch to be running for the presidency of the United States! Under Lyndon Johnson I ran for other things-coffee, sandwiches and cigarettes. Nobody's going to call me 'Minnesota Fats...
...tried zazen (meditation) during my visit," reports TIME Correspondent Eleanor Hoover. "At first the lotus position-the straight spine, the fingers pressed together, the lowered posture of the jaw-is not so bad. The cushions seem quaint instead of hard. After a little while, however, the sense of confinement sets in. Panic at the thought that there is no escape, that you simply must sit there just that way for 40 minutes, is well-nigh unbearable...
...first press conference after the battle of Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley was gruff and to the point. "Gentlemen," he said last week, thrusting his jaw out for angry emphasis, "get this thing straight for once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create dis order. The policeman is there to pre serve disorder...
Nonetheless, Humphrey is attacked as deficient in the very qualities that have distinguished his career. That explains, to a degree, the bewilderment that shows up in the pursed lips and clenched jaw. What he fails to grasp is that he is no longer Mayor Humphrey, or young Senator Humphrey, and has not been for many years. He constantly reminds people of the way he was, but he is that way no longer, and his frequent excursions into nostalgia only underscore the point...
...plight when he was hit in the face and toppled. Even while he was on the air, CBS Floor Reporter Dan Rather was flattened by two security men; one hit him in the stomach, the other in the back. Rather's colleague, Mike Wallace, was belted in the jaw by a guard and hustled out of the hall. The attacks on newspaper and TV reporters became so flagrant that eight top executives of news-gathering organizations* strongly protested the treatment in a telegram to Mayor Daley...