Word: booths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unless he runs afoul of some of the perplexing imponderables of the campaign. Will a significant, as yet hidden, conservative bloc creep from under the rocks to cast their ballots for the Republican candidate? Will Johnson devotees, their eyes glazed by astounding poll results, neglect to visit the voting booth and put down a mark for their man? Will moderate Republicans, fearful of giving Johnson too sizeable a mandate, vote instead for his opponent in a reverse protest...
...when he was re-elected by 983,000 votes while Democrat Arthur Levitt, running for comptroller, was re-elected by 791,000-a split of 1,774,000. New York, in fact, makes it impossible to vote a straight ticket by pulling a single lever in a voting booth or marking a single X on a paper ballot to choose all candidates, instead requires that voters indicate each choice separately. So do 22 other states.* That makes coattail riding difficult, could mean the difference, for example, to Republican Senatorial Candidates Robert A. Taft in Ohio and George Murphy in California...
...stores-to open a charge account. To show how painless borrowing can be, a Los Angeles finance company runs a TV commercial of a man speaking into a pay telephone: "I wanted to ask, could I borrow" At that point, money pours out of the phone, filling the booth...
Pale Blue Filler. Up in the broadcast booth, he was indeed some rambler, take it from Berra. He could not resist telling TV fans in his cornpone drawl every last detail of what they could see for themselves. Moreover, with a journalist's eye for firsts and a statistician's mania for the minutiae of baseball, he was fond of confiding to his listeners that, say, the bunt that had just been witnessed was the first ever laid down by a left-handed rightfielder in an August night game with two men on base...
Another reason Allen may be through is that for all his knowledge of baseball, he cannot speak with the assured insight of a fellow who has once played the major league game. In the booth where Allen would have been sitting last week were Rizzuto and Joe Garagiola, who once caught for the Cardinals. Baseball players, brainwise, used to be presumed capable of little more skill in the arts of communication than a repertory of meta-laryngeal grunts. But Rizzuto and Garagiola are both articulate, witty, catlike on top of the play by play, and full of first-person-singular...