Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...influence in pivotal (45 electoral votes) New York State. In New York last week, Nixon took public note of his private hopes of interesting Governor Rockefeller in the vice-presidential nomination. Said Nixon: "A number of party leaders, Republican leaders, believe that Governor Rockefeller . . . would add strength to the ticket." But, he added, he did not blame Rockefeller, who withdrew last fall as a candidate for the G.O.P. presidential nomination, for showing no immediate interest. Snapped Rockefeller firmly: "I will not be a candidate for Vice President under any circumstances, no matter who asks...
...Generally liked in Houston, Stokowski was occasionally criticized, first for pushing too many modern works, then for moving in the opposite direction and pandering to the city's "roast beef appetite." Nevertheless, the city got a good financial return on Stokowski's reported $35,000 annual salary: ticket sales increased 86%. So far, no successor for Stokowski's job has been found; Sir John Barbirolli turned it down...
...even airline lawyers could figure out what the board really meant. The hike seemed to amount to about 2%, but Braniff announced that it will ask for a 3% hike, Capital for a 4% hike, Eastern for 5% (with Capital and Eastern also asking an additional $1 a ticket...
...public office, but grants a leave of absence with continued fringe benefits for any employee elected to fulltime office. Ford has made plain that no worker need fear company reprisal for his political activities. One employee was worried because her husband planned to run on the Democratic ticket. Henry Ford phoned her personally to urge her husband to run, wished him good luck besides...
...university student. Recalling that "I had to be tutored for three months before I could even get into Stanford," Hoover told how he helped stage the first football game between Stanford and the University of California. Student Manager Hoover and others sold a lot of tickets in advance of the historic game: "That's why both teams had uniforms." Day of the game, gold and silver coins glutted the ticket office because "nobody used that dirty paper money." But when kickoff time came, there was nothing to kick off. A student had to be dispatched by street...