Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats got the news of a stunning party sweep in Connecticut. Then came word that Vermont had sent its first Democrat to Congress in 106 years. The Democratic bandwagon came to a screeching halt in New York, where Republican Nelson Rockefeller, after a remarkable personal campaign, carried the G.O.P. ticket to a vital win. But the Democrats regained their momentum moving westward, and climaxed their victory with the overwhelming defeat of Republican William Knowland for Governor in California...
More than anything else, the 1958 elections showed that neither political party can count on blind following from the U.S. voter. Many a split ticket elected a Governor of one party and Senator of another in the same state. Result of the split ticket: the U.S. is in for more than its usual share of bipartisan government, beginning at the statehouses and running resoundingly to Washington...
...carried Schenectady County by a bigger margin than Tom Dewey in 1950, increased G.O.P. margins in suburban Westchester and Nassau Counties, held Harriman below 60% of the vote in New York City by scoring heavily with liberals, independents, minority groups. Rockefeller carried in with him the Republican state ticket, led by upstate Congressman Kenneth Keating, elected U.S. Senator over Tammany-backed Democrat Frank Hogan. Conceded a game Averell Harriman, 66: "I congratulate Mr. Rockefeller and extend to him my best wishes...
...appealed nightly over TV; Cuban radios boomed their promises. The government announced that 72% of the island republic's 2,870,678 eligible voters had picked up their voting permits. And around the country the polls were provided with enclosed booths where the voter could even split his ticket, deposit it in a sealed ballot...
...Panagra by close to half. Samples: Guatemala's Aviateca charges $99 for a round trip between Guatemala City and Miami; Pan Am gets $147.60. I.A.T.A. fare for a Lima-Miami round trip is $473.40; Aerovias Panama Airways asks only $260. Aerolineas Peruanas sells a Santiago-Miami two-way ticket for $276.50; Pan Am and Panagra are required to charge $678. To top it all off, U.S. airlines are limited by local regulations as to the number of seats that they can sell. Brazil restricts Pan Am to 430 seats a week (a figure set years ago) while major Brazilian...