Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldwater volunteers had been going virtually fulltime since March, when they launched "Operation Q," the effort to secure enough qualifying signatures to get Barry's name on the ballot. So determined were the workers that they greatly surpassed the necessary 14,000 signatures on their petitions, came up with more than 50,000 names before noon on the first day of their drive...
...some observers it gave further proof that Barry is a poor vote getter. Indeed, his record in this year's previous primaries was unimpressive. He lost to Lodge's write-in candidacy in New Hampshire. He won Illinois, but his only on-the-ballot opponent, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, got 26% of the vote. He won Indiana, but Harold Stassen, of all people, got 26%. He won Nebraska, but write-ins gave Nixon 31.4%. He all but withdrew from Oregon, leaving Rocky as the only active candidate in the field...
...have this thing sewed up," said Barry Goldwater after his California victory. Perhaps not-but with the Republican Convention in San Francisco just a month away, Goldwater needs only a few more stitches to tie together the 655 votes needed for the presidential nomination. The probable first-ballot roll call of delegates, as reported by TIME correspondents in all 50 states...
Arkansas (12): G.O.P. National Committeeman Winthrop Rockefeller may get them all on the first ballot as a favorite son, but if Goldwater really needs them, he can call...
Delaware (12): There may be a first-ballot holding action with all votes going to Senator John J. Williams as favorite son. If not, count 5 for Goldwater, 4 for Scranton, 2 for Nixon, 1 undecided...