Word: getters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Arguments for: a moderate, a Jew, a proven vote getter in bellwether Connecticut. Arguments against: religion, a lackluster record as Kennedy's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
Britain's Science Minister, the former Lord Hailsham, who renounced his viscountcy in order to run for Parliament, last week also lost his unofficial title as the Tories' champion vote getter. As plain Quintin Hogg, he won a seat in the Commons from London's solidly Conservative St. Marylebone (pronounced Marrerbun), a well-to-do residential district that encompasses Lord's-the Yankee Stadium of cricket-as well as medicine's Harley Street, Elizabeth Barrett's Wimpole Street and Sherlock Holmes's Baker Street. However, Hogg carried the constituency with only...
...some 30 of the city's 190 schools have 85% or more Negroes-and are therefore described by civil rights organizations as being de facto segregated-Mrs. Louise Day Hicks was re-elected chairman of the Boston School Committee, and emerged as the city's champion vote getter. Mrs. Hicks, a lawyer, had attracted a good deal of attention by insisting that in Boston "there is no de facto segregation." She piled up 20,000 more votes than able Mayor John Collins, 44, who won re-election by pointing to his record of massive urban renewal...
Harvard's number four runner John Ogden did not run at all yesterday due to illness. Bob Anschuetz, who was a valuable point-getter last year and has been fifth on occasion for Harvard this year, limped through the final three miles on an injured knee to finish 25th...
...their party officials, senior ministers and elder statesmen go through an elaborate, private process of divination aimed at reaching what is euphemistically called "the consensus" of the party; when they have settled on a candidate who is acceptable to both Cabinet and parliamentary party and looks like a vote getter to boot, the name is presented for routine approval to the Queen. Thus Macmillan's successor will probably not be announced until after Parliament reconvenes Oct. 24 and the Prime Minister formally resigns. In all probability, Macmillan will be given an earldom...