Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former resident of New York City, I take exception to the view that Lindsay's election signals a comeback for the Republican Party from the disaster of 1964. The man Mr. Lindsay ran against was a product of the corrupt, inept and hopeless Democratic organization that has left the city in the stagnant position it finds itself in today. A stronger Democratic candidate certainly would have sent J.V.L. scurrying back to Congress...
...subway trains gasped to a halt, 800,000 passengers were trapped in them. In hundreds of stalled elevators, office workers hung tremulously between earth and sky. Traffic lights failed; main arteries snarled. Hundreds of drivers ran out of gas?only to discover that service-station pumps cannot work without electricity. Apartment buzzers summoned nobody. Most vending machines became inoperable. Fire alarms were mute. At the United Nations, earphones and tape recorders went dead, leaving bewildered delegates ?for the first time in memory?with the refreshing experience of having nothing to say and no one to listen...
...fact, for all his prestige, Old Harry Byrd's influence was greatly exaggerated. For despite his uncompromising fiscal orthodoxy, Byrd ran his committee according to his own courtly code. He refused to block the liberal bills he abhorred, and eschewed the quid pro quo tactics by which more ambitious politicians achieve their ends. Yet Byrd, as one Administration aide puts it, "was like a yellow blinker. You had to slow down when...
...election officials were kidnaped, key opposition candidates kept off the ballots entirely. In heavy Awolowo precincts, polling places mysteriously ran out of ballots, and Akintola's party stalwarts stuffed the ballot boxes in others. "Men became pregnant with ballot papers," chortled one observer. All urns, of course, had to be shipped immediately to the regional capital at Ibadan for Akintola's "official" counting, and when it was all over, the only surprise was the size of his victory: 78 seats to 18. "The West has gone too far," said the nation's leading political commentator Peter Enahoro...
...many journalists ever make it big in politics. There were Winston Churchill and Warren G. Harding. But journalists keep trying. The latest to make something of a splash was Bill Buckley, who gave up editing his National Review for a few months while he ran for mayor of New York. He didn't run too well, and last week Bill Buckley went back to journalism with a bang. Some 2,500 friends and well-wishers gathered in the ballroom of Manhattan's Americana Hotel to cele brate the tenth anniversary of his conservative magazine, which started...