Word: bandwagons
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...excesses began to worry some Brazilians. But the vast majority seemed squarely behind the people in uniform. Suddenly everyone was scrambling to climb aboard the bandwagon. Union after union once dominated by the Communist-run General Labor Command began buying newspaper ads cheering the "victory of the glorious forces." One of the most radical divisions of Goulart's own Labor Party vowed to throw out "all extremist elements." By a 75 to 0 vote, the Minas Gerais state legislature kicked out three extremist congressmen; in Natal, the city council voted 25 to 0 to impeach their leftist mayor despite...
...held today, "Ambassador Lodge would draw a heavier share of the vote than he did in New Hampshire." Lodge's Oregon support, Lubell said, cuts more deeply into Rockefeller's potential vote than into Goldwater's, is based partly on his general popularity, partly on the bandwagon psychology of New Hampshire. Asked for whom he would vote, a Portland machinist told Lubell: "That fellow who came in first in New Hampshire, what's his name...
...also magic to one Paul Corbin, a Wisconsinite who climbed on the Kennedy bandwagon in 1960, worked in the Wisconsin and West Virginia primaries, and was rewarded by Bobby with a job on the Democratic National Committee staff. Corbin was supposed to screen prospective Democratic job applicants, but his interviews often turned out to be diatribes. "Where were you," he would cry, "when we were fighting in West Virginia?" He was, first of all, a Bobby partisan. Once, when asked about his political future, Corbin said that he planned to "stay in Washington for 16 years, eight years with Jack...
...kept leaking stories to the newspapers that Johnson had the inside track; that in a showdown he would have the votes." Obviously it is impossible to say today just how much Baker's affairs had to do with John son's election-but the Baker-sponsored bandwagon movement certainly did not impair Lyndon's chances. Johnson saw to it that Baker was named assistant Democratic Senate secretary...
...style-conscious teen, a year-round buyer. If he sees any item he likes, he buys it on impulse. A few calls for a style or color today may mean a headlong rush for it tomorrow." If the college crowd picks it up, and the clothiers climb on the bandwagon, the middle-aged man may find it on his back two years later without even knowing...