Word: bandwagons
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...color-blind talks about red and green." She also sees through herself: much of her ambition had been mere "blind longing to escape from the torture of watching other women with full lives and satisfied instincts." As the Senator builds steadily toward the presidency, Mrs. Lee hops off the bandwagon. "The bitterest part of all this horrid story," she concludes, "is that nine out of ten of our countrymen would say I had made a mistake...
From the very beginning of his 1952 campaign, Bob Taft has used the bandwagon theme: Republicans everywhere want Taft; Taft is ahead; Taft can't lose. The purpose of this tried but not necessarily true strategy is to influence delegates who want, above all, to be riding the winning horse. Last week, with the Republican Convention only a fortnight away, Taft & Co. were playing the confidence theme like a name band at sign-off time, trilling the high notes and thundering the lows...
...continue to do nothing until Chicago where, on the first ballot, some think he might go for MacArthur-a safe way to temporize-and then jump either on an Ike or a Taft bandwagon. But there is some question whether Fine can hold on to his bloc of delegates that long. Also, a last-minute decision will earn him less gratitude from the nominee than an earlier commitment...
...reasonable extent." Keynoting the convention, Utah's Governor J. Bracken Lee, a Taft man, offered a bit of basic political philosophy. Said he: "Don't get so wrapped up in your own candidate that if you see he is losing you can't get on the bandwagon of the winner...
Smith, another neutral, was making a speech before the Orono-Old Town Kiwanis Club eight miles away. Ike, she said, "is on the verge of bandwagon support that may sweep aside all opposition prior to the convening of the national convention in Chicago . . ." Her words quickly reached Bangor,filtered through the meeting rooms, and added force to a trend...