Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholic vote was a compelling reason for nominating him.* When Kennedy was fighting for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination at the 1956 Democratic convention, said Reston, Kennedymen circulated a memo arguing that the Catholic vote would swing several key states to the Democrats if Kennedy was on the ticket (TIME, April 18). Principal architect of the memo: Ted Sorensen, key man in the Kennedy-for-President organization...
Mississippi Rumbles. Powell was elected to the New York City Council in 1941, and three years later ascended to Congress from a district 90% Negro. He was-and he remains-unbeatable. When he rejected the Democratic ticket in 1956 to support Dwight Eisenhower, and when Tammany Hall dumped him, the voters of Harlem remained loyal to Powell...
...years later he openly opposed Rhee's re-election to the presidency, and in 1956 earned Rhee's abid ing hatred by getting himself elected Vice President on the Democratic ticket. Rhee isolated him by excluding him from all participation in govern ment, did not even speak to him except on ceremonial occasions. Then an assassin took a potshot at him, hit ting him in the hand; Chang was so shaken that he retired to his home, surrounded himself with hand-picked bodyguards, and rarely ventured forth. And though he courageously continued to denounce the corruption and brutality...
...some of his biggest assets and best supporters of yesteryear. He has no functioning organization. He has no support among labor chiefs, scant support among organization Democrats. In his home state of Illinois, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, state Democratic boss, opposes him because he carried the state ticket to defeat in 1956. And Harry Truman, for whatever it is worth, snorted in Manhattan last week that it would be "difficult" for Stevenson to be "offered again...
...With a choice of three pay channels, stay-at-home patrons are happily shelling out for first-run movies (a sampling: A Summer Place, The Gazebo, Sink the Bismarck) at the rate of $1 for a two-hour show every evening for the family (the cost of one ticket to a downtown movie). Children can chip in nickels and dimes toward the cost of their favorite shows, buy the likes of Tom Thumb and Gulliver's Travels for a quarter on Sunday afternoons. Father is staying home for sports events he cannot tune in free, and during...