Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vague Letter. That semantic spat settled, another divisive word promptly popped up to plague the G.O.P. This time it came from Reagan. Asked by a television interviewer whether the party should nominate in 1968 a man who had not backed the 1964 ticket, Reagan said: "Well, a lot of that would deal with whether the individual repented or not. I don't think that a convention would support someone who stayed aloof or who actually opposed the will of the party and then was completely unregenerate...
...inconceivable possibility for Kennedy-who badly wanted the second spot in 1964, but may resist it in '68. If Lyndon is in trouble two years hence and Bobby's luster seems capable of pulling him through, the President may well insist on having Kennedy on the ticket...
...number of dentists per capita. Though the legislature in the '20s dubbed Arkansas the "Wonder State" and later more modestly renamed it the "Land of Opportunity," by the early '40s the brightest opportunity for young people moving off the farms lay in a one-way ticket to another state. Those who managed to get a good education found little reward for their learning back home; a competent technician could ask higher wages within half a day's bus ride in almost any direction. State government was hampered at every level by an anachronistic constitution enacted...
...voters, most of them in the big cities. In New York, as the Rheingold-beer ads say, there are more Italians than in Naples, more Puerto Ricans than in San Juan, more Greeks than in Sparta. Minority sympathies are still considered essential in civic affairs, and the ethnically balanced ticket remains something of a reflex...
...elect Italian Republican John Volpe, who had been a good and popular Governor. Volpe even took that oldest Irish stronghold of all, Boston, city of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and James Curley. In New York, the Democrats followed the ethnic book by put ting an Italian (Frank Sedita) on the ticket as attorney general, but Rockefeller handily carried the Italian vote...