Word: bandwagons
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...clear strategy to coddle the Democratic Baby. He wants no wounded feelings or angry yowling. He hopes to lie low in the last weeks before the convention while his managers clinch his nomination with a starkly simple piece of advice to uncommitted delegates: "Jump onto the bandwagon while there are still choice seats...
South Dakota (8): Pledged to Primary Winner Kefauver for the first ballot, and then looking for a bandwagon...
Typing Hyenas. Fadeyev was ordered aboard the great Communist peace bandwagon and sent off to Wroclaw to deliver a vodka-primed attack on the U.S. There he talked of the "disgusting filth" emanating from American culture and spoke of "trite films . . . reactionary waste paper such as TIME" and American swing, a "contemporary version of St. Vitus' dance ..." Said he, speaking of the work of Writers John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, André Malraux, Jean Paul Sartre: "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens, they would produce such works." Next year, attending...
Voting was spread over three election days. In the hope of creating a bandwagon psychology, Sir John had arranged to have his "sure" candidates on the first-day list. The bandwagon never rolled; it was swamped under a torrent of opposition votes. Sir John lost two-thirds of his Cabinet, as his party held on to only eight seats out of 42 at stake. The coalition won 28, the Communists five. At the second-day election, Sir John failed to hold a single seat, while the coalition picked...
Pundit ARTHUR KROCK in the NEW YORK TIMES: stunning success in Minnesota has tossed Stevenson off the bandwagon, but it has not put the Senator in the driver's seat. Nevertheless, the Senator's opponents see two specific strengths in his challenge: 1) Minnesota is in the farm area where the Democrats hope to repeat the event of 1948; and the participation of many Republicans and independents in its Democratic primary stimulated that hope, especially when the much smaller Republican primary vote is considered. 2) The Democratic Party may be headed for a Southern insurrection; and if this...