Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name on the cover (see below) was President-elect Goldwater...
...walk, a sort of presidential version of Grauman's Chinese Theater forecourt, already includes the names of John Kennedy, all seven original U.S. astronauts, and Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Last week, in a favorite ranch ritual, Lyndon added two new ones as Mexico's President-elect Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and Wife Guadalupe stooped to etch their signatures with nails in the fresh cement...
Just before Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey left for his post-election vacation in the Virgin Islands, he taped a television interview during which he discussed the exhausting length of the U.S. presidential race. "What we really find ourselves doing with these long, extended campaigns of two and three months is replaying old material," said Hubert. "Therefore I think that you tend to become tired, the public becomes a little tired...
Trying hard to make themselves heard above all the noise, a few Republicans sensibly pleaded for unity. "We're not going to improve our situation by cutting each other up," said Iowa's Senator Jack Miller. Washington's Governor-elect Daniel J. Evans, a 39-year-old engineer who upset two-term Democrat Albert Resellini, urged the party to "reconstruct our framework in terms that will encompass a variety of opinion." Former Vice President Richard Nixon, who had reinstituted himself as the favorite target of some cartoonists by attacks on his fellow moderate Nelson Rockefeller, now called...
Inside the castle's vast Gothic Vladislav Hall, 294 Deputies of the tame Communist Parliament were gathered to elect a new President. For weeks there had been hints that dour Antonin Novotny, 59, who for seven years has been both President and Communist Party chief, might lose the presidency, possibly as the first step to complete oblivion. Once a Stalinist who survived by ruthlessly killing off his rivals, Novotny had become a slavish follower of the deposed Nikita Khrushchev. During the recent Moscow ceremonies celebrating the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Novotny was noticeably absent from the Communist lineup...