Word: standin
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Last week Lurleen Burns Wallace, 41, died in her sleep. She had served 16 months as her husband's standin, executing orders that he dictated from a desk across the hallway. She was buried in Montgomery amid military pomp, while a tearful Wallace interrupted his demagogic third-party campaign to mourn. From her deathbed, Lurleen had urged him to keep up his quest for the presidency, though public life as Governor's lady and then as the nation's only lady Governor was never to her taste. "Politics," she once recalled, "was something Daddy discussed...
...Hoosier philosophy, e.g.: "Whenever you hear a man say it's not the money, it's the principle, you can bet it's the money." Branigin himself got into the primary contest as a matter of principle. Lyndon Johnson asked him to run as a presidential standin, and although the Governor was never a Johnson fan, he believed that party loyalty demanded his acceptance. "Here I agree to do it," he says, "and just a few days later [when Johnson pulled out of the race] find myself dropped through a trap door." But Branigin, who cannot...
...name on the ballot to keep the state's delegation theoretically uncommitted at the convention, but Teddy gingerly refused. House Speaker John McCormack, 76, also demurred. Postmaster General Larry O'Brien, a Springfield native, volunteered to quit his Washington post and run as a standin, but Johnson vetoed the idea, as well as the proposal that State Senate President Maurice Donahue take...
...June 4 primary ballot. Working all night, his supporters collected more than 28,000 signatures. Being first in with their petitions, they gained the top spot on the ballot for McCarthy-a considerable psychological advantage, since Johnson will be represented in California's primary by a standin, State Attorney General Tom Lynch...
...over in Rome on his return from the NATO meeting in Brussels to talk with the King. Not ignoring more lofty influences, the junta sent Archbishop Leronymos to reason with Constantine. There was some speculation that the King's sister, Princess Irene, might go back as a royal standin. But the King so far seemed disinclined to return, fearing that his position would be reduced still further to that of a mere figurehead. Even so, having failed in his open revolt against the junta, the King could yet decide that, by returning, he might once again stand before...