Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grits & Fritz Hominy Ticket...
Betty Ford for Vice President? The novel notion has been proposed in some seriousness by Forbes magazine, which argues, reasonably enough, that "all everybody would be talking about, arguing about and enthusing about would be this unique ticket, this extraordinary running mate." Unique it certainly would be. And the sparkling Betty, clearly one of Gerald Ford's greatest political assets, might well help him attract a larger share of the women's vote in an uphill race if he gets his party's nomination next week in Kansas City...
Before any sallies into the Northeast could be helpful, Reagan had to nail down his own strength in the South. In a visit to Jackson, Miss., he and Schweiker reassured 13 restless Alabama delegates, who stayed with the ticket. But the two were much less successful in trying to convince the vital Mississippi delegation that Schweiker had shed his liberal horns and that no basic ideological split remained between the two running mates...
...more liberal than Ford, favors the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion-and opposes capital punishment. He helped bring about broad tax reform in Iowa, including repeal of levies on food and prescription drugs, while staving off any general tax increase. Major drawbacks: he would bring to the ticket only what fellow-Midwesterner Ford already gives it-honesty, simplicity-and blandness...
American, the third largest carrier, showed a $24.8 million profit for the quarter, v. a loss of $1.5 million last year. Like the other airlines, American was favored by extraordinarily good business in June as school let out, vacations began and Bicentennial travelers lined up at airline ticket counters around the nation. In June alone, TWA earned $24.4 million, more than four times the total for June of last year; the performance was enough to pull the nation's second largest carrier into the black for the second quarter and to cut losses for the first half from...