Democrats: A Job with a Future

The two-hour political science seminar was called "DecisionMaking in the Federal Government," and the professor hardly needed to prep for it. Hubert Humphrey was a college teacher 25 years ago, before he entered politics. Returning to academe last week, he taught his first class at Macalester College, a smallish (1,900 students) liberal arts school in St. Paul, Minn. Far from retreating to an ivory tower, however, Professor Humphrey chose the campus as the ideal place to retrench for a political comeback attempt—perhaps for the Senate in 1970, more probably for the Democratic...

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