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...Humphrey, recognizing himself to be at a distinct advantage at this point made a decision to abandon his prepared statement. Speaking of himself in the third person, as is his wont, he described Hubert Humphrey in highly animated terms as the son of a small-town druggist who had graduated from high school first in his class...
...nation so deeply involved itself in mourning. Streets customarily thronged with busy city traffic echoed eerily and emptily under sunny skies; banks and department stores, their windows unlit, were closed all or most of the day; schools in many cities were shuttered in tribute. As is their wont in time of national tragedy, the American people turned to their television sets. An estimated 120 million watched a funeral march that lasted more than three hours, twice as long as that for President Kennedy...
...last, free at last,Thank God Almighty, we're free at last. ·ON HIS OWN FUTURE (April 3, 1968): We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now Because I've been to the mountaintop. I wont mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over...
Harvard shot coldly in the first half as is its wont. Only Jeff Grate's incredible bombing kept the Crimson in the game. The 6-0 senior who burst on the scene two years ago with great promise finally began to find the basket after a disappointing season...
Steinberg knows enough about the characters of the Bible to put them down with learned insight. Joshua, he says, was "the first real pushy prophet"; Lot was "the first Biblical voyeur"; Jezebel "was immortalized by Frankie Laine." As for the Jonah story, "the Gentiles-as is their wont from time to time-threw the Jew overboard." If Steinberg debunks God as well, it is not the real God but the "pompous image of him created by the clergy." Solemnly, Steinberg intones: "The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away. The Lord God is an Indian giver." When suffering Job calls...