Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some pros speak longingly of a Romney-Nixon ticket, or a Romney-Percy ticket, or Romney-Hatfield, or even Romney-Reagan. At the moment none of the prospective running mates would settle for the vice-presidential nomination. The impasse reminded one old hand of the time when Calvin Coolidge asked Senator William Borah if he would join him on the G.O.P. presidential ticket. "Which end?" snapped the stately Senator...
Romney at this point can count on probable convention support from a host of moderate G.O.P. Governors. Rockefeller urged a Romney-Javits ticket last spring. Colorado's Love, Massachusetts' Volpe, Pennsylvania's Shafer, Wisconsin's Warren Knowles and Rhode Island's Chafee?who sees a possibility of a Romney-Chafee combination?might throw him their convention votes. Vermont's Senator George Aiken states flatly: "I've held that Romney is the most promising man we have. He could win." Among other Republican Senators, New Jersey's Case, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, Hawaii's Hiram Fong and Maine's Margaret...
...West Virginia's Democratic Senator Jennings Randolph (59%). Youngish up-and-comers also were rewarded with renewed votes of confidence. Vermont's Governor Philip Hoff, 42, elected in 1962 as the state's first Democratic chief executive since 1854, got a 57% majority this year; ticket-splitting Rhode Island voters re-elected Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell, 47, with a 67% margin and also returned energetic Republican Governor Chafee, 44, by a 64% total...
...first members of their race in 71 years to win election to the state legislature; Georgia re-elected all ten of its Negro legislators. In Alabama's Lowndes County, black voters?who outnumber whites 55% to 45%?were less than enthusiastic about Stokely Carmichael's aggressive Black Panther ticket, which went down to defeat. Elsewhere in the state, several Negroes were elected, notably Macon County's Lucius Amerson, 32, a Korean War paratrooper and former postal clerk who became the South's only Negro sheriff. In Dallas County, Selma's public-safety director, Wilson Baker, who acted with memorable...
SWEET CHARITY, a musical suggested by Fellini's Nights of Cabirici, chronicles the sexcapades of a Manhattan taxi dancer who's looking for a one-way ticket to the altar. Gwen Verdon leads a high-kicking troupe through Bob Fosse's choreographic wonderland...