Word: bandwagoneers
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...other delegations will not throw early support to Senator Kennedy because their leaders, both Catholics, have enough of an interest in the vice-Presidential nomination to keep off the Kennedy bandwagon. Governor Michael DeSalle and Senator Frank Lausche of Ohio and Governor David Lawrence of Pennsylvania, thus are not able to bargain with Kennedy as long as the tacit prohibition of two Catholics on the same ticket stands...
Cold-eyed Earle Clements, again the strongman in Kentucky politics and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's handyman on the national scene, won the power to pick Johnson-for-President delegates for most of the state's 31 convention votes. If Texan Johnson's bandwagon bogs down, Clements' men are convinced that they will be swung over to Missouri's Stuart Symington. But such plans may run into intraparty fire from Lieutenant Governor Wilson Wyatt, who may wind up fighting for a chance to split off some of the votes for Old Friend Stevenson...
Incumbent Charles A. Watson has jumped off and on the CCA bandwagon during his several terms on the Council. At present, he is making loud noises in his opposition to the inner belt route highway that city consultants advised run through the Cambridgeport area from the B.U. Bridge up Brookline...
Acting under Article 29 of the U.N. Charter, Lodge called for the creation of a "procedural" subcommittee of inquiry, rather than for an "investigating" group that would be substantive and thus subject to the veto. On the Bandwagon. Cleared in advance with all Council members except the Soviet Union, the Lodge resolution passed...
...rich is it in oil. The descendants of a persecuted splinter group of Moslems that took refuge in their present inaccessible home back in the Middle Ages, they do not allow their wives to unveil even for the dentist. But they have been shrewd in jumping aboard the oil bandwagon, and French officials estimate that there are already at least a score of franc billionaires among the Mozabites. "France never has and never will tamper with your faith and customs," Soustelle told the bearded oldsters. And to a group of young oil truckers he said: "But now I bring...