Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Javits because of his liberal record. Finally Tom Dewey arose at a party caucus that lasted until 4 a.m. "Who else," demanded Dewey, "have we got?" Javits not only ran against F.D.R. Jr., but he walloped him by 170,000 votes and was the only Republican on the state ticket to breast the Democratic tide. Manhattan's Javits carried upstate New York by nearly 663,000 votes. By that stunning victory he automatically became the only logical, available choice for this year's Republican senatorial nomination...
...over another primary result: Congressman Tom Lane, only two weeks out of a federal prison, where he served a four-month term for income-tax evasion (TIME, Sept. 17), easily won renomination over four opponents in the Seventh Congressional District. The Democratic fear: Lane's name on the ticket may drain votes away from an otherwise strong slate...
With the turning of the leaves and the rapid approach of the gridiron season, familiar grumblings about the system of ticket distribution again highlight dinner tabletalk. The old bruhaha continues to evoke undergraduate gripes and groans, most complainers failing to realize why they must bear the gross inconvenience of requesting their billets two weeks in advance...
...H.A.A. ticket office has a new official in charge of sympathy. At least, that is the only conclusion possible-after the first day of ticket distribution yesterday...
...times past, confusion on ticket distribution was just hard luck. But consider the case of some students yesterday. Their envelopes came back with a little note, "Sorry. We got you as close together as possible...