Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seven months ago, former Newsman Tom Mechling, 31, and his pretty brunette wife Margaret set out on a campaign tour that outdid the Fuller Brush man. Taking turns at the wheel of an auto trailer, they toured Nevada 18 hours a day, seven days a week, ringing doorbells and chatting with registered voters-Mechling estimated a total of 60,000 of them. Last week, at trip's end, Tom Mechling won Nevada's Democratic nomination for Senator in one of the year's most startling political upsets. His defeated opponent: popular, former State Attorney General Alan Bible...
Nixon (himself once a barker for a "carnie" wheel) had come to Springfield to compete with the Democrats' star attraction, Adlai Stevenson, on his own home grounds. In a broiling sun, Dick Nixon spoke to 9,000 Illinois Republicans. He proved himself no great orator but a hard-hitting performer...
...Step right up, folks," the barkers were calling. "Hurree, hurree, hurree!" The Ferris wheel was turning, the roller coaster swooped down its artificial abysses, and the piccalilli was waiting to be judged. But the most up-to-date attraction at the Illinois State Fair last week was a good-looking, dark-haired young man with a manner both aggressive and modest, and a personality to delight any political barker. He seemed to have everything-a fine TV manner, an attractive family, a good war record, deep sincerity and religious faith, a Horatio Alger-like career, which had led him into...
...Wife & Washington. When Dick's older brother Harold had TB, Mrs. Nixon took him to Prescott, Ariz., and in the summers, Dick joined them, working as a barker for the wheel of fortune at the Frontier Days Rodeo. He learned the knack of drumming up customers, and his booth became the most popular in the show...
...wheel of Nixon's own fortune carried him from Whittier (he graduated second in his class) to a scholarship at Duke University's law school. He lived with three other students in a shack in a wooded patch a mile and a half from the campus...