Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellow Roman Catholic, John Bailey, Connecticut Democratic state chairman, circulated a memorandum among top Democrats at the Chicago convention. Wrote Bailey: "There is, or can be, a Catholic vote," and the way to make the most of it, he insisted, was to put Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy on the ticket.* Kennedy narrowly lost the vice-presidential nomination, but set to work within weeks to build toward the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination...
...Rockefeller is still unwilling in July, there are plenty who are willing and eager in April. Among the possible Vice Presidents being mentioned last week were several who could offer a geographical balance to a ticket with California's Nixon. New York's Senator Kenneth Keating or Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to. the U.N., have all the necessary East Coast credentials. Or Nixon could profitably pair up with a Mid-westerner-either Indiana's Representative Charles Halleck or Interior Secretary Fred Seaton of Nebraska. If Texas' Lyndon Johnson is not on the Democratic...
...only racers that could find moving room in New York City: homing pigeons. In 1926 he tapped his pigeons' nest egg for $1,500 to buy a nag named Reveillon. Two years later, he struck up an alliance with Shakespeare-spieling Isador ("Kid") Bieber, a onetime Broadway ticket scalper famed for his big bets (he won $60,000 by backing an underdog incumbent named Woodrow Wilson...
...strong whiff of stop-Kennedy in his not-so-chance remarks about Bob Meyner, who has vice-presidential ambitions and 41 New Jersey delegate votes to back them up. As an Easterner and a former Roman Catholic, Meyner could never hope for a spot on Kennedy's ticket, but he might fit nicely into a double bill with Lyndon Johnson. Purred Rayburn: "We're not going around promising anything to anybody. But in my book Bob Meyner rates mighty high...
...further inducement to budget-conscious tourists, I.A.T.A. also announced a new off-season excursion-rate structure for trips from the eastern U.S. and Canada to Europe. Beginning next fall, passengers can fly from New York to London between October and April on a 17-day round-trip ticket for $320 on propeller aircraft, $350 for jet, thus saving between $112 and $136 a ticket...