Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scouts and college representatives called Peters frequently last spring. Ten colleges, including West Point, Wake Forest, and Yale, contacted him. Harvard alumni in Buffalo bought him a plane ticket to Cambridge "to have a look around...
...gubernatorial candidate seemed more interested in getting a Marxist history professor fired than in facing up to pressing statewide problems. Long-docile Democrats in Philadelphia chopped a tentacle off the "Octopus of Walnut Street," as their tired machine is unlovingly known, by electing a District Attorney on the Republican ticket. A Democrat surprised everybody by getting himself elected mayor of Scranton, Pa., and Republicans did the same in Binghamton, N.Y., Waterbury and New Britain, Conn., and Akron, Ohio...
Though Beame lost, both of his ticket partners came through. Popular Queens District Attorney Frank O'Connor, 55, who is aiming to run for Governor next year, was elected city council president. And Mario A. Procaccino, 53, Italian-born son of a shoemaker, was elected controller...
...their disastrous nationwide showing in the presidential election last year. In Philadelphia, 35-year-old Arlen Specter, assistant counsel of the Warren Commission, which investigated President Kennedy's assassination, used implausible means to achieve the seemingly impossible. A registered Democrat, he ran for district attorney on the Republican ticket, with the support of Americans for Democratic Action. Specter won, despite a 2-to-l Democratic registration edge and hoots of "Benedict Arlen" and "Specter the Defector" by his former Democratic colleagues. Specter not only assailed the inefficiency of Incumbent D. A. James
...meeting of the Harvard Young Republican Club, McKeldin said that Vice-Presidential candidate William E. Miller's speech against liberalized immigration quotas clinched his decision to repudiate the Goldwater ticket. He emphasized that President Johnson was the only Democrat he had ever voted for in his life...