Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside the polling station at Moscow's Secondary School No. 70, the face was familiar and the voting proctors did not demand the customary identification papers. Nilcita Khrushchev, 72, looking considerably older and thinner, quietly folded his ballot and dropped it into the urn, casting his meaningless vote for his Moscow district's unopposed candidate for the Supreme Soviet, or Parliament. The candidate's name: Alexei Kosygin, the fellow who, with Leonid Brezhnev, put Khrushchev out of a job two years ago. It was a rare public appearance for Nikita Sergeevich, and a crowd of nearly...
...working for the nomination instead of helping 1966 Republican candidates, he "could probably have locked it up by now." Other, darker horses were naying with varying degrees of conviction. California's Ronald Reagan insisted that it would be "presumptuous" of him to remove his name from any primary ballot. And New York's Nelson Rockefeller, pledging yet again to stay out of the contest, said: "I am determined not to be used as an instrument to split the unity of progressive Republicans...
...ballot is a yes/no referendum, because RGA could only find one candidate for each office. "We had to figure a way to save face," one representative said...
...almost every key state. Besides Reagan, Tower and Kirk, the likely list now includes Ohio's James Rhodes, Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer, either Percy or Everett Dirksen in Illinois, Rockefeller or Jacob Javits in New York. Romney strategists, realizing that their candidate has to build first-ballot strength in the primaries, are planning intensive campaigns in four states: New Hampshire, Nebraska, Oregon and Wisconsin...
Like it or not, Senator Robert Kennedy has a reputation he can't shake for hanging tough, cool and humorless. The combination might be surefire at the ballot box, but at the box office-sure chill. Or so it seemed until a few weeks ago, when out came Wild Thing, a new 45-r.p.m. recording of a big-beat tune. The vocalist is a dead ringer for Bobby and he purportedly is at a recording session...