Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means been a foolproof route to the White House. This has been so because mediocre men have often been chosen for the job-a description that scarcely fits Hubert Humphrey. The fact remains that only three Veeps in U.S. history have ascended to the presidency via the ballot (John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren); initially, at least, all the others who reached the White House, from John Tyler to Lyndon Johnson, were elevated by the death of a President...
...were voting for themselves. All the principal protagonists in Viet Nam's long agony knew it: the government, striving to get as many voters as possible to the polls; the Viet Cong, hoping that their threats and grenades might frustrate the whole thing; the Buddhists, boy cotting the ballot box because it could not be stuffed to their specifications; and the U.S., standing aloof to let the Vietnamese speak for themselves...
Within hours after the union's strikeending ballot, all five of the afflicted lines resumed at least half their normal schedules. National, with a DC-8 flight leaving Miami for Los Angeles at 1 a.m. Saturday, was first to get into the air. Among TWA's first flights were three transatlantic jets bearing only extra flight crews, who were needed overseas to man flights for stranded tourists...
After casting his ballot in the Virginia hamlet of New Baltimore, Howard Worth Smith shook his head. "I don't know," he said. "Times have changed." How much they had changed became apparent in the next several hours. When the votes were counted in last week's Democratic primary, "Judge" Smith, 83, longtime leader of the conservative Southern bloc in the House of Representatives, was dispossessed of the seat he has occupied for 35 years. Senator Willis Robertson, 79, like Smith a member of the Byrd organization, was also defeated. And, in the Old Dominion that has been...
With 11,000 signatures already in the bag, and five days remaining before the deadline, Adams seems assured of a place on the ballot. Probably the major factor affecting how well he does in the primary will be the progress of the war during the next two months. Right now, according to the latest (July 11) Louis Harris poll, the Administration is riding high. But public support for the Hanoi-Haiphong bombings rests on a hope that they will bring peace. Assuming this not to be the case, the current enthusiasm is likely to dampen somewhat by the middle...