Word: customs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forty-one days after they are named, the electors meet in their state capitols to choose the President. Legally, they are free to select whomever they please, although custom and party discipline usually bind them to the nominee they have pledged to support. If no candidate wins a clear majority of the electors' 538 votes, the contest moves to the House of Representatives, where, in theory, the 26 smallest states, with 17% of the U.S. population, could impose on the nation a President of their own choosing...
Producer Seltzer hoped to make 50 miles a day, usually made a little over 10. Three hours from Nairobi, one of the safari's 15 vehicles, a custom-made $28,000 British truck, gave out. Next to go were the gasoline truck and the tow truck. Four of the seven 16-mm. cameras went out of commission the first three weeks, and the film kept melting. Holden's human brigade got through unscathed, though, thanks in part to the Kenya Army Camel Corps, which rode shotgun for the company to protect it against marauding Shifta tribesmen. Holden survived...
...become the most talked about, the most imitated, if not the most bewildering journalist of the '60s. Wolfe's first collection of articles-The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, written mostly for Esquire and New York magazine-was a carnival of pieces about custom-car styling and demolition derbies, teenage tribal rock music, Las Vegas, and the girl of the year. His reportage on the rages and outrages of modern America's cultural phenomena was fascinating-and fatiguing...
...KISS OF DEATH: Erroneously accepted as having originated with the Mafia custom in Sicily. It is Biblical, deriving from the kiss of Judas and his betrayal of Christ...
Actually, the pool is just where Drake, who at 31 looks like a beach boy emeritus, gets his ideas. They are subsequently executed inside the $150,000 house. And executed is the word. He has a custom telephone hook up that enables him, by the dial of a code number, to monitor any of his ten client stations across the country...