Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MINEHAHA CITY, South Dakota, October 8--There is a strong conservative wind blowing across the fields of South Dakota this fall. It will probably knock the entire Democratic ticket down--except for former presidential candidate George S. McGovern...
Unruh typifies scores of other Democrats who, for the sake of their own political careers, are wary of becoming too closely associated with the national ticket. Many partisans from the McCarthy-Robert Kennedy-George McGovern antiwar ranks have come over to the Vice President, but most have done so reluctantly and are supporting him without enthusiasm. Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, was less than passionate when he allowed: "I expect in the end that I will keep my franchise as a Democrat." Because he is in a tough campaign for re-election...
...Mervin Field poll released last week showed that California voters believe that Muskie does more for the Democratic ticket than Spiro Agnew does for the Republican. All told, 11% of the state's Republicans think that Agnew weakens their ticket, while 17% consider him an asset. Only 6% of the Democrats think Muskie hurts the ticket, while 25% consider him an asset...
...escorting him to a movie premiere. So Hollywood's Burt Lancaster pulled up his red Mercury and was approached by a pair of California highway patrolmen, who informed him that he had been driving at 55 m.p.h. in a 45-m.p.h. zone. O.K., Mac, here's a ticket. Burt refused to accept it, explaining: "I want to get an education." He was taken to the county jail in Los Angeles, where he refused to post the $65 bail and spent the night in a cell. Obviously he is a quick teach. By 8 a.m., he considered himself sufficiently...
Even the Socialist Party reluctantly came out for the Democratic ticket, arguing that "no strategy of protest voting will seriously forward the progressive political trends...