Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The Victorians: The Ticket-of-Leave Man. Barrie Ingham plays a young Lancashireman who falls victim to a London crook, is wrongly accused of forgery and sent to jail. Free again on a "ticket-of-leave" for good behavior, he sets out to track the crook and settle accounts...
White's manipulation of YRNF conventions followed the same pattern. About 1955 he turned abruptly to the conservative camp; and until 1961 when Leonard Nadasdy won on a "no facitionalism" ticket, White's conservative candidates swept into the YR national chairmanship just as easily as had his earlier liberal candidates. "The Syndicate has never had a political philosophy," says Groshen. "Its tactic is to embrace the popular philosophy of the moment. The conservative Young Republicans chose to ignore this truism; he saw something that seemed headed in the same direction he was traveling; that was all that was important...
...pack when the nominating convention assembles next summer, and that the reluctant dragons, Reagan and Rocky, could be right up front. Said a Western Governor: "As Romney goes down, Rocky goes up. As Nixon goes down, Reagan goes up." There was even talk of a possible Rockefeller-Reagan ticket. To be sure, one Governor dismissed it as an "oil-andwater" mixture, and Reagan himself seemed to be ruling Rocky out of any consideration when he declared that no body who was deeply involved in the 1964 primaries should run next year. But Rocky has recently spoken favorably of Reagan, indicating...
Suddenly, the dispute was resolved. Ky, once the heavy favorite to win the presidency in the September 3 elections, agreed to step aside. Moreover, he said he would take the second spot on a ticket headed by Thieu. Said a subdued Ky after his withdrawal: "We must all make sacrifices in order to realize unity...
Abruptly, Ky decided to yield. If Thieu put him on the ticket, he said, he would bow out of the presidential race. That left Thieu and Ky overwhelming favorites to defeat the other 17 slates now in the running. "Big Minh" may poll a sizable number of votes in absentia, and Huong is expected to do well-but not nearly well enough. Thieu, in fact, may offer to appoint Huong Premier as another step toward unity and conciliation. As for Ky, whose withdrawal won wide praise as an act of genuine patriotism, he is expected to be given far more...