Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Trade Commission, Liddy Dole is a poised beauty from North Carolina who manages to soften her husband's gunfighter image. "She's part of our Southern strategy," says Dole proudly. Similarly, Joan Mondale, the vivacious and savvy wife of Senator Walter Mondale, is brightening the Democratic ticket, although she got off to a shocking start. Asked by a television reporter on the West Coast to explain the difference between Watergate and the sex scandals of Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays, Mrs. Mondale said: "The issue is Watergate or waterbed. The Democrats do it to their secretaries...
...reaction, Southern whites left the Democratic party in droves--voting Republican only at the national level in the '50s, then starting to enter the party as local campaign workers and straight-ticket voters with the Nixon election of 1960. Goldwater carried all five "Deep South" states landslide margine in 1964; by 1972, Republicans--almost every one somewhat to the right of Ronald Reagan--held 31 per cent of the congressional seats in the Old Confederacy, four times as many as their party held 12 years before...
Democrats from all around the state called upon Howe to withdraw before he damaged the chances of the rest of the ticket. The party discussed ways to get another name on the ballot, but was stymied--the state convention had already been held and Howe was unopposed for the nomination. Because Utah law prohibits write-in votes in primary elections, Howe's name would not even be listed. Several Democrats offered their names as alternatives, but none was well-known enough to win a write-in campaign in the general election. Wayne Owens, who gave up the seat now held...
Some psychologists think that hijackers cash in on widespread hostility to authority. Once the air passenger believes he will not be killed, says Dr. Hubbard, he can view his captor as a dashing desperado lashing out against the Establishment. Also, victims sometimes see the hijacking as a free ticket to adventure and personal publicity. Says Hubbard: "Passengers know that the game, correctly played, will make them celebrities among their circle of friends. For a moment, too, they can run away from wives, mortgages, the Internal Revenue Service and the church appeal...
With a good advance ticket sale, based on a long forgotten idea the Red Sox would be gunning for the Eastern Division championship, the team hopes to go over the 1.9 million home attendance mark by Sunday...