Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chance that the auto industry might top 8,000,000 units for calendar 1964, said Ward's Automotive Reports, "has been K.O.d." The industry has al ready had one of its worst introduction periods in recent history, thanks to the 31-day General Motors strike, and two poor months back to back could make their effects felt this winter not only in Detroit but around the entire...
...mention of the Democratic party the members of this group see a montage of ward heelers and ward bosses, cigars in mouths, poker hands on the table. For when Case, Rockefeller, Scranton, and Lindsay entered politics, the Democratic party in the northeast--despite its noble patriarch Franklin Roosevelt--was dominated by Catholic immigrants, largely Irish and Italian. Its supreme symbol was Alfred E. Smith. Case, a minister's son and the descendant of an old family, chose the Republicans...
Bach Outswung. The eight Swingle Singers, currently on their first tour of the U.S., are all classically trained musicians. All are French, except their leader, Ward Swingle, 37, who is a native of Mobile, Ala. A graduate of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music, Swingle went to Paris in 1951 on a Fulbright scholarship to study piano, and eventually settled there. To pick up pocket money, he sang the "do-wa" backgrounds for pop singers in various Paris recording studios. As an escape on weekends, he recruited the best singers from the studio vocal groups to have...
...Sweep. Johnson's greatest triumphs, however, came in the nation's large cities. He cracked even such Republican metropolitan areas as Indian- apolis and Columbus, where the G.O.P. suffered from lack of organization and apathy toward Goldwater. Yet despite the prediction of a huge Johnson victory, Democratic ward leaders proved far from complacent, turned out their labor and minority blocs in spectacular fashion to produce comfortable voting cushions. Johnson rolled up a record 400,000-vote margin in Philadel- phia, some 70,000 better than Jack Kennedy had done. He won New York City by a whopping...
...room filled and midnight approached, one listened in vain for those lovably tortured strains of "Happy Days Are Here Again." In vain one looked for those portly ward lackeys with equally pudgy cigars. In vain one tried to sense the electricity of unabashed partisanship...