Word: ticket
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...Kennedy family and then as a member of the Kerner commission on civil disorders. He was a principal author, along with New York Mayor John Lindsay, of the report's conclusion that America was heading toward two nations-one black, one white. Hoping to be on the ticket with Hubert Humphrey in 1968, Harris was given the consolation prize of Democratic National Committee chairman. He played a key role in making the procedural changes that brought more women, youths and minorities into the nominating process...
While Havens was cleaning up, Captain Jeff Weigand played Amherst student George McGovern. It wasn't enough that Amherst provided the South Dakotan Senator with Tom Eagleton the only vice-presidential candidate forced off a ticket in history, now they torture him by giving his namesake a squash racket and watching him embarrass himself in public...
...liberal" Democratic candidates because Carter has relatively few fatcat backers). And his friendship with the Allman Brothers Band and other Capricorn Recording artists out of Macon is, it seems, genuine, if highly profitable of late--the four Carter benefits scheduled to date may net up to $200,000, with ticket stubs serving as proof of donation that will make Carter eligible for matching federal funds in January, Rolling Stone reported last week...
...that as a matter of fact there is, because off-Broadway is pretty nearly dead, off-off-Broadway has been killed off, and they're stuck. On Broadway people have learned that there is an audience out there that has shunned them not because of the price of the ticket, though that has been a factor, but primarily because of what they've offered. So we have a more interesting audience coming in now, a wide spectrum. I think anything we do will have walk-outs, but there are enough people waiting to come in to make those shows...
Asked if he planned to use the Pentagon as a steppingstone to a place on the Ford ticket, Rumsfeld replied that he was not running for the vice presidency. But he refused to remove himself from the race. Said he: "It is presumptuous of me to take myself out of a position I have not been offered...