Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UNLIKE many French intellectuals, Crozier was born in a small town in the Champagne district of France of "very modest means." His father's family were peasants and farmers, and his mother was the daughter of a gardener. Academic brilliance was his only ticket to mobility and he made good...
...back him last fall, he could hardly fare better with the state Republicans controlled by Rockefeller. If Lindsay cannot win the governorship or a place in the Senate-both seats are occupied by liberal Republicans -he has little hope of winning a future place on the Republican national ticket. Still, if he waits until 1974 to run for Governor, he might broaden his Republican constituency and succeed Rockefeller in Albany, a powerful base from which to campaign for the presidential nomination...
...fantasy, of course, is improbable. If Lindsay did become a Democrat, he might be more likely to run behind. say, Muskie in the primaries. Lindsay might stay alive for a few ballots at the convention and then capitulate, or at best, be persuaded to take second spot on the ticket. And that slate might lose disastrously in November...
...hail! The pregnant Blue Bird of Happiness has nested in the '70s! Who wants this finely feathered fowl, anyway? Will it be cheaper for the traveler? No, ticket taxes will go up. More comfortable? No, four abreast instead of three. Will it be faster? Yes, if you don't have any bag gage. Who will benefit from it? Not the American traveler. The 747 [Jan. 19] is one pregnant bird that should have used the Pill...
Reports circulating that Mr. Agnew plans to advance his well-known "Southern Strategy" by dumping Mr. Nixon from the 1972 ticket in favor of Strom Thurmond were hotly denied by Agnew aides...