Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armed forces." Apparently he hoped to bargain for postponement of the election and formation of a new junta. Rumors racing through town that Rojas Pinilla was coming back took on added weight from the fact that the exiled military dictator last week left Lisbon, flew to Bermuda, bought a ticket for Barbados. But the armed forces stuck solidly behind the junta. Piedrahita was still free to take charge, and that was enough...
Shadow Cabinet. Sitting in an outer wing of the presidential palace watching these goings-on is young Vice President, Diosdado Macapagal, a Magsaysay follower who, running on the Liberal ticket, got more votes for Veep than did Nacionalista Garcia for President. Since Macapagal refused to change his party after the election, Garcia barred him from any Cabinet post. Completely isolated ("I only learn what's going on from reading the newspapers"), Macapagal has been subjected to every kind of palace snub. If his air conditioner breaks down, maintenance men take weeks to fix it. When official limousines were handed...
...flavor of Smith's early years quite well. Smith emerges as a cocky, jaunty politician, the man who reorganized New York's State government and gave it an honest and popular administration. He shows through as the Smith who in 1933 threatened to lick Tammany on "a Chinese laundry ticket," if it wouldn't back Herbert Lehman...
...considerable head-shaking on the part of his 90-year-old mother, widowed for 25 years. "Franklin is such a brilliant fellow," she says, "I don't see how he can be so stupid on political matters." Comments Fry: "Mother would vote for the Devil on the Republican ticket-and frequently...
...that fine income, Hialeah Gardens was unhappy-and last week it sprang its own trap. A reform ticket, voted in by 72-6, took over the government, with the new mayor, grey-haired Mrs. Hazel Shattock, pledged to abolish the speed trap. Major reason for the change: the people of Hialeah Gardens had seen hardly a penny of the speed-trap collections. Most of the money had gone toward a new jail, the cost of keeping traffic records, and ever-new, always souped-up patrol cars...