Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Winding through the empty stretches of wooded farmlands, the train boomed into the quiet and respectable north shore suburbs of Forest Hills, Glencoe, Northbrook, Wilmette and Evanston and as the density of houses and street corner drugstores began to thicken, my father would lean over and say, "Get your ticket ready. We'll be coming to Chicago any minute...
Buckley is the political wonder of the year. A right-wing Republican by background and a Nixon follower on most issues today, Buckley ran on the Conservative Party ticket in the nation's most consistently liberal state. More than any other major candidate, he made the social issue work, drawing enough of a Silent Majority vote with an approach summarized by his motto...
...Republican ticket for state offices also lost ground. In attempting to campaign for all his running mates, Reagan spread himself thin and watched his 1966 plurality of nearly 1,000,000 votes shrink to roughly half that. The Republicans lost both houses of the state legislature. The reversal was particularly damaging because the 1970 census gives California five additional seats in Congress; the new legislature will determine how the state is to be redistricted...
...Nixon country, withstood the President's campaigning. One of the few important Republican scores in the Midwest was the Ohio Senate race, in which Robert Taft Jr. eked out a narrow victory over Howard Metzenbaum. The seat presently belongs to Democrat Stephen Young. But in yet another example of ticket-splitting, Ohio elected Democrat John Gilligan to succeed a retiring Republican Governor...
Brock majored in commerce at Washington and Lee University, but is no longer active in the family business headed by his father, William Brock Jr. And his rooting attachment is now for the University of Tennessee, where he is a season-ticket holder for football games...