Word: bandwagoneers
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...Harvardmen and an interloper from Yale-all with other fulltime jobs-who call themselves Games Research, Inc. Their first game was Convention!, which can be played by two to seven players, each of whom is trying to win the nomination for President of the U.S. Uncommitted delegates, ballots, caucuses, bandwagon sentiment and demonstrations all play a part, with the smoke-filled room a policy of utter desperation...
...suit the country well. The choice of a new President is as ritualistic as a papal succession. Under the rules, a candidate cannot toot his own trumpet; he must never give the slightest inkling that presidential ambitions have entered his modest head. Instead, his friends quietly start the bandwagon rolling and set about persuading the party powers that their man is ready for the No. 1 spot. The leaders of the P.R.I.'s trade-union wing, the peasant branches, P.R.I.-dominated businessmen's associations, the party's lower-echelon bureaucracy are all consulted. A half-dozen...
...John Chafee of Rhode Island hinted last night that he might support Barry Goldwater at the 1964 Republican national convention. The governor prasied the Arizonal senator and his policies and indicated that a Goldwater bandwagon is already rolling...
GOLDWATER: The Bandwagon The Senator insists that he is still "just pooping around the country" raising funds for the party. But "Draft Goldwater" committees are sprouting like winter wheat, should be established in every state by mid-October. Some states already have Goldwater groups clear down to the precinct level, waiting only until Barry formally announces his candidacy-probably in January-to move into high gear...
Though Texas Senator John Tower has been his front man, in recent weeks Senator Norris Cotton of New Hampshire and ex-California Senator William Knowland have boarded his bandwagon. In Ohio, Industrialist George Humphrey, Ike's Treasury Secretary, is drumming up business support. Canny Lawyer Herbert Brownell, Ike's Attorney General, has been turning up lately at Goldwater rallies. And enough money is rolling into Goldwater coffers to impress even a Rockefeller. "Hell," said a Chicago Republican after a draft-Goldwater meeting, "someone said something about money, and within ten minutes we had $375,000 pledged...