Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...size of the victory rolled into a landslide and then into an ava lanche, President Eisenhower kept no chart as Franklin Roosevelt had done on election nights. He depended entirely on the television set and press reports brought in by Secretary Hagerty and son John. At 10 o'clock, as previously planned, he dressed and rode off to the Sheraton-Park Hotel, where the Republican National Committee had set up its victory headquarters. There, surrounded by members of his Cabinet and other close associates, preparing to make his victory appearance before 2,300 cheering Republicans...
...Clock. Radio and TV had not even run their first-string pundits and their elaborate mechanical brains into the game when the decisive answers to some crucial questions began to flood...
...Elecom prognosticated "less than 100 electoral votes" for Stevenson; CBS's Univac calculated 340 for Ike, 87 for Stevenson, then paused to digest a few more returns. The Republicans' own best calculating machine. Party Chairman Leonard Hall, was confident enough to predict before 9 o'clock that Ike was riding home on a landslide. At about the same moment, young John Fell Stevenson, the Democratic candidate's son, left his fa ther's hotel room for the moment, was asked the state of morale inside. Said...
...hopes for any displays of wild cheering vanished when the hotel ran out of beer at about eleven o'clock, leaving only Pepsi-Cola to lift the souls of the assembled Republicans...
...Night Store. A round-the-clock store, serviced by vending machines, was opened by the Grand Union chain as part of its new supermarket in East Paterson, N.J. The devices, built into the front wall of the store, dispense milk, eggs, bread, margarine, frozen fish and meat, coffee, tea, cold cuts, make change for shoppers. Cost: $800 to $1,600 per machine...