Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy 5 to 4, on the curious grounds that his protestations of disinterest were more credible than, say, Rockefeller's. As for Reagan, even though he told a Sacramento press conference, held on his 57th birthday last week, that "I don't want to be on a ticket at all," he will not file an affidavit of disavowal...
...three terms. Last week two-term Democrat Otto Kerner, 59, announced that he would prefer not to challenge history. Kerner's unexpected decision to quit-and possibly get a federal judgeship-left Illinois Democrats with reminiscences of 1948, when Cook County Political Boss Jake Arvey forged a winning ticket with Adlai Stevenson for Governor and Paul Douglas for the U.S. Senate. Today the political boss is, of course, Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley, and the most likely candidates are State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III and Sargent Shriver, head of the federal War on Poverty...
Like Arvey, Daley must line up a Democratic ticket strong enough to capture the Governor's chair, carry the state for the President, and run at least a respectable senatorial race against a formidable Republican incumbent-in this case, patriarchal Everett McKinley Dirksen. Also like Arvey, who steered Stevenson instead of the less manageable Douglas toward the Statehouse, Daley is believed to be leaning toward young Stevenson for the governorship despite his reputation as an independent-minded politician. Much as he would like an agreeable team man in Springfield, Daley would like a winner even more...
...speculation, however, Illinois Democrats know very well that ultimately one man will write the ticket-Dick Daley...
...filth, surly attitude of so many passenger-train employees (from ticket agents to dining-car waiters), the nonfunctioning of schedules, and the unwillingness of management to work with local and state communities to improve this mess, suggest that the railroads should be forced to sell their passenger service to market-oriented entrepreneurs, or begin to show that they can provide this needed utility. I hope that there will be new efforts and renewed vigor in tackling the problems of America's third great passenger system...