Word: ballyhoos
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...desperation of the Republican Party is all the more apparent with the ballyhoo surrounding the election of John Lindsay. How this untried, unproven and unproductive individual can be projected into the limelight of national politics is beyond...
Texas' Republican presidential primary was low-key and lackluster. Practically no bandwagons, billboards or ballyhoo enlivened the political landscape. They weren't needed, since the state already was buttoned up for Goldwater. In the Republican voting, he got 100,823 votes, 75% of the total cast. Following him was Write-In Candidate Lodge, with 11,803. Rockefeller, who tried to keep his name off the ballot...
...changes. This year they cut tedious public speechmaking from two days to one. They are considering raising the $2.50 admission price to eliminate tourists and curiosity seekers, but they have not reached the point of discouraging size and superlatives. For one thing, the Hanover Fair is a corporation-and ballyhoo and bigger figures over 17 years have produced an annual 4% dividend for Hanover and Lower Saxony...
With a flurry of TV ads, King and Cudlipp billed the new Sunday Mirror as a paper for "THE MODERNS" (meaning those under 35), for "people who not only want to be with it but way out ahead." They promised to give readers "restless thoughts," and the ballyhoo paid off. Since the revamped paper made its first appearance last month, circulation has shot up to some 5,320,000. But except for a cheerier makeup and a few new features, the paper is not all that...
...stunt had been done before, in 1785, but getting there was half the fun for Donald Placard, 37, and Paul E. Yost, 39, both of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Engaged in ballyhoo for a French travel magazine, the two rising young Americans rose to about 13,000 ft., sailing a 72-ft. hot-air balloon across the English Channel in 3 hr. 45 min. Climbing out of the gondola, young Piccard, son of Balloonist Jean Felix Piccard, who died this year, and nephew of the late air-sea Explorer Auguste Piccard (inventor of the deep-diving bathyscaph), seemed...