Word: getterism
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...promises to be no hindrance, since Trudeau will be going up against another relatively un tested politician: Tory Leader Robert Stanfield, 54, the onetime Premier of Nova Scotia who succeeded former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker as party leader last September. Stanfield is cautious and reserved, but a proven vote getter and administrator who served an unprecedented four terms as Nova Scotia's Premier. In the few months since he assumed the Tory leadership, he has restructured and strengthened the party organization in Ottawa and the country's 264 election districts. Still, most Canadians feel that the contest will...
...make way for several hundred small round tables, each with a white and a red carnation in the center and neat white programs with the cartooned image of Cambridge Mayor Walter J. Sullivan on the seats. It was a "do" (testimonial dinner) for Sullivan, perenially the top vote-getter in City Council elections...
...LYNDON B. JOHNSON, the President, the greatest vote-getter in U.S. history, now in serious trouble because of an arduous war abroad, a racial crisis of alarming proportions at home, and a gyrating economy that seems to be getting out of hand...
...York's Senator Jacob Javits called a press conference in Manhattan to reveal "the political surprise of the year." To the astonishment of absolutely no one, the liberal Republican, a formidable vote getter in New York, announced for a third Senate term. Though Javits has intensified his criticism of the President's war policies and demanded an end to the bombing of North Viet Nam, the Administration has yet to find a candidate to run against him. Thus far, only two comparative lightweights, Democratic Congressmen Joseph Resnick and Otis Pike, have announced for the race...
MEMO FROM DESILU PRODUCTIONS: Good morning, Mr. Getter. We like your script. In fact, we think its potential is greater than you realize. Your assignment, should you decide to accept it, Bruce, will be to boil down your feature-length thriller to a tight, pulsating 49 minutes, then come up with 27 more just like it. Same basic plot on which the fate of mankind hangs. Same fascinating attention to visual gimmickry. We think we've got a world-capable series here. As always, should you or any of your Impossible Mission Force be gunned down by the critics...