Word: bearers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When patches of empty seats begin to fester in the orchestra of a long-run Broadway hit, a producer will do anything that does not break the Lindbergh law to fill his seats. The commonest hookcrook is the "twofer," a pasteboard promising to sell the bearer two tickets for the price of one more or less. Press gangs range from Westchester to Harlem (where a growing middle class provides some of Broadway's steadiest customers) to drop twofer bait at insurance offices, union halls, colleges, doctors' waiting rooms and similar waterholes...
West Berlin's bouncy Mayor Willy Brandt, 47, has been picking up pointers from the career of Jack Kennedy. Last week, as he pushed his campaign to oust octogenarian West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, the Socialist standard-bearer confessed that his attractive wife, Rut, was expecting a third child just about election time...
...Pennsylvania's Bill Scranton, bearer of an illustrious Republican surname and one of the brighter faces in the new Congress, had to cut through the anthracite of heavy Democratic registration and unemployment in the Tenth District to beat Incumbent Stanley A. Prokop...
...National Maritime Union's boss, Sailor Joseph Curran, spent more than an hour with Nikita Khrushchev in the Kremlin in July, he heard, by his account, the most candid analysis yet to come from K. on the merits of the U.S. presidential candidates. Joe Curran, a spear-bearer of the Kennedy camp, at first told newsmen that Khrushchev felt that Kennedy would be a "sensible" President. But just in case the Kennedy camp was worried about Joe Curran's failure to qualify K.'s kiss-of-death remark, Curran hastened to say, a bit later...
Indonesia's President Sukarno worked his face up into a "say prunes" expression as a Soviet gift-bearer pinned a Lenin Peace Medal on him. The ruble equivalent of the prize: $25,000. As Sukarno saw it, the honor was fitting recognition of his overflowing "love for humanity...