Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Edinburgh (Aug. 21-Sept. 10). Britain's largest festival combines flamboyance and elegance with serious if unadventurous endeavor-quantities of Brahms, Beethoven, Verdi and Mozart, with two premieres: William Walton's Second Symphony, Humphrey Searle's Third Symphony...
...Wisconsin he defeated Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey on his home ground, established the fact that a forceful, attractive Roman Catholic can count on impressive numbers of his Republican and independent coreligionists...
...West Virginia, the toughest test of all, he knocked Humphrey out of the race, proved that a Catholic can win handily in a heavily Protestant state...
Oregon provided the fringe on top of his rolling bandwagon. Pitted for the first time against a field of four, Kennedy registered a knockout. Favorite Son Morse waged a campaign of savage personal attack, which Kennedy ignored. The names of Hubert Humphrey, Stuart Symington and Lyndon Johnson were all listed on the ballot, though the three refused to campaign. Adlai Stevenson was an unwilling ghost candidate.† When the returns were in, Kennedy had outpointed all Democratic opponents put together: Kennedy, 135,000; Morse, 85,000; the others, a total of 44,000 votes. Unopposed in the Republican primary, Dick...
West Berlin, said Khrushchev to Hubert Humphrey, is "a bone in my throat.'' As an island of freedom and prosperity .(see box), West Berlin constitutes a damning and unsettling contrast to the drabness of life in East Germany-a fact attested to by the 2,500,000 East German refugees who have poured into West Berlin in the last decade. Khrushchev is under pressure from his East German puppets, who complain in effect: "We cannot control these people forever unless something is done to eliminate the escape hatch that Berlin provides...