Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where were President Johnson's coattails when every Republican governor in the running was re-elected last fall? Most commentators have a ready answer. American voters, it appears, showed a new high level of intelligence by splitting their tickets and electing many responsible, moderate Republicans. Some of these worthy Republicans were swept under by the Johnson tide, but on the whole, 1964 was the year of the Split Ticket...
...Senator, regardless of party. Incumbent Republican Governors and Senators ran an average of 17% ahead of Goldwater. At the same time, non-incumbent Republicans running against incumbent Democratic Governors and Senators ran only 1 1/2% ahead of their Presidential candidate, 1964 was not the Year of the Split Ticket; it was the Year of the Incumbent...
...clergymen dropped what they were doing and headed for the nearest airport. In Indianapolis, A. Garnett Day Jr., an official of the Disciples of Christ, was about to emplane for New York when he heard that King was calling for help. Day walked back into the terminal, bought a ticket for Alabama. Also in Indianapolis, Jewish Mission Worker David Goldstein had an appointment to seek a salary raise from his boss; he canceled it and headed for Selma. California's Episcopal Bishop James Pike interrupted a trip to New Orleans and flew into Alabama. Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord...
...large pools of dried blood, and the walls were a smear of bloodstains. Heavy tracks of blood led into a second room, where police found a locked yellow trunk containing a hammer and the battered body of a man. The head was crushed to a pulp. An air ticket and passport thumbprint identified him as Herberts Cukurs, 65, a resident of São Paulo, Brazil...
...evidence, the show business was paying off. In the two years since De Carvalho took over, season ticket sales have gone...