Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estimation, after reading your recent cover story on the Senate majority leader, that a Johnson-Kennedy ticket would bring sure victory to the Democratic Party in November...
...footnote to your April 18 article on combine-maker Robert Rauschenberg in 1948 a youth hosteler in our pension in Paris had purchased a ticket for a performance of the Paris Opera, not realizing that it was a strictly formal affair. She, in a very real sense, had "nothing to wear" for this sort of occasion...
...complete text of De Gaulle's speech in French. For dinner, the Waldorf's candlelit Grand Ballroom was crammed with the high-angled names of the city's society. At the "April in Paris'' Ball at the Astor, socialites shelled out $150 a ticket only to find themselves at a party snubbed by its hoped-for guest of honor. (Said an aide: "The general does not like to attend empty social affairs.") And for a touchy moment or two, pickets carried placards crying "Libérez l'Algérie," but minus his eyeglasses...
...Roosevelt said, "A vote for Humphrey is a wasted vote") and that it was not winning him any new friends. Humphrey hinted that the Kennedy camp was showing signs of panic, claimed that he was getting offers of a deal to run for Vice President on a ticket with Kennedy. His stock reply: "Fine, go ask Jack if he'll be my Vice President...
Allen's Touch. In 1944 Allen attended the Democratic Convention and was one of a handful of backroom movers and shakers who persuaded Roosevelt to dump Henry Wallace as Vice President and put Missouri's Senator Harry Truman on the ticket. During the campaign, Allen worked closely with Truman, added many a deft touch to his campaign speeches, and by inauguration day, he was a member of the innermost Truman Circle. When Truman became President, he rewarded Allen with a job as director of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., but after a year Allen quit. He realized that...