Word: bandwagons
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...once-hopeful Governor Robert Meyner. On the strength of a Wisconsin popular victory, Kennedy backers in New Jersey would put on the pressure for a switch away from Favorite Son Meyner; Michigan's powerful United Auto Workers Union might be ready to urge Soapy aboard the Kennedy bandwagon. With these blocs on top of Wisconsin, the Kennedy bandwagon would be hard to stop. But first Kennedy has to win the thousand-dollar Wisconsin...
...announcement. He almost traveled over the telephone." For Jack Kennedy the news was cause for jubilation. It finally answered the long-dangling 64-vote question: with Ohio, Kennedy could count the convention's fifth largest delegate bloc in his preconvention muster. It regained momentum for the Kennedy bandwagon-which had slowed perceptibly since the birth-control issue (TIME, Dec. 7). And it marked Roman Catholic Kennedy's first major breach of the line that Catholic bosses of big states have thus far held against...
They had used considerable muscle to get their bandwagon rolling, and if it should falter, this could conceivably work against them. But nobody could deny that, for the moment at least, it had rolled farther toward Los Angeles than any other on the road...
...Nixon bandwagon is to work up impressive speed in the primaries, it must be rolling merrily for the nation's first primary in New Hampshire twelve weeks hence. But while the bandwagon, floats, trapeze artists and bands formed up impatiently. New Hampshire's chief elephant driver, Republican Governor Wesley Powell, sulked in his tent. Reason: Powell had the offer of an honorary chairmanship of the Nixon campaign, and he wanted to be full chairman, with control of plans and funds. Last week, mindful of serious clankings in the one-ring New Hampshire tent of Nelson Rockefeller, the state...
...four delegations. Even if the state leaders decide that the vice-Presidential slot is out of reach and pledge themselves to Kennedy at the convention--as any of them might do--the Senator will have lost their earlier support that could have started the all-important bandwagon rolling...