Word: ballyhoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After an amazing display of political ballyhoo, redundant rhetoric, and parliamentary chaos, a confused Cambridge City Council last night defeated a proposal for a non-binding rent control referendum by a vote of 5-3, with one councillor voting "present...
Almost every service station along the highways these days looks like a miniature Las Vegas. Banners, billboards and other ballyhoo urge motorists to win big prizes by matching Dino Dollars, playing Tigerino, collecting Presidential Coins or joining in scores of other games. There is not a casino in the world with the gall to offer odds as long as those that are standard in service stations and supermarket "games of chance." The Federal Trade Commission, which two weeks ago concluded a two-year study of promotional lures, found that in one food-chain game that touted...
...more human." His sense of humor has not suffered, as he showed when John Ehrlichman related to him a conversation with Charles de Gaulle in Paris. The French President was fascinated by Ehrlichman's intricate duties as chief campaign advance man in 1968: organizing the ballyhoo, the bands, the balloons, the crowds. "By the way," Ehrlichman told Nixon, "I signed up for three months in 1972 to handle De Gaulle's campaign." "But," said Nixon, "haven't we got something...
...campaign machine, with plenty of the fuel necessary to run it-money. They are saturating the airwaves with television and radio spots; at Nixon rallies high-priced professional entertainment warms up (and probably accounts for) the crowd; balloons and confetti add to the carnival atmosphere. All this hoopla and ballyhoo can't alter the hard fact that Humphrey, and not Nixon, is the one who really cares. I recently saw a sign which sums up the whole thing: Nixon Is Plastic; Humphrey Has Heart...
...experience." As he ambles through a crowd, eyes light and smiles turn on in swift progression, like a series of lamps brightening up a corridor. What the crowds, large or small, recognize is not only a man who has made them laugh but one who, without sentimentality, ostentation or ballyhoo, has become a national hero. The trophy room in Hope's North Hollywood home is filled like an overendowed museum with awards, honorary degrees and gifts that would be the envy of a Nobel prizewinner. One of them is the gold medal, voted by Congress and presented...