Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked with dismay at Dirksen's troglodyte image, and saw his party heading for a replay of the 1964 Goldwater debacle. George Romney bored him, Charles Percy faded, and Morton talked up Nelson Rockefeller to his friends. Lately he had become resigned to having a Richard Nixon ticket. Optimistic friends hoped that with an influx of G.O.P. moderates next year, Morton might even oust Dirksen from the Senate leadership. An innately shy man, Morton saw little hope. His despair was heightened by the illness of his wife and a growing dread that the G.O.P. would again be tagged with...
...ticket-seller is a kindly old lady who looks up from a Screen Romances to demand proof-of-age. If you hand her a hastily marked-over expired driver's license, and act incredulous when she questions it, she will take your two dollars and wave...
Just inside the lobby is the inevitable snack bar, but it gets little use, and the popcorn man doubles as ticket-taker. Since there are no inter-missions, and the coming attractions are the real show-stoppers, a trip to the snack bar or men's room means you miss a mile or more of skin. Two-bit milk taffy suckers sell the best...
...were President Johnson and I wanted to be re-elected," Barry Goldwater has said, "I would put George Wallace on my payroll." Other Republicans, alarmed by polls that consistently show Wallace drawing twice as many votes away from a Republican ticket as from the President, share Goldwater's suspicion that the White House has been giving Wallace at least tacit support for his third-party movement...
With Johnson taking the South and California, the Republican candidate would be left fighting for the populous Northern states which normally give their large blocs of electoral votes to the Democratic ticket. Nixon would be even less popular in these states than the President is. A liberal Republican like Rockefeller, as the polls have indicated since last spring, would be a much stronger candidate. He might even carry one or two moderate states in the South if he could win the solid Negro support Johnson expects...