Word: electability
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...slight, white-haired postal clerk and onetime mental patient, whose only aberration seemed to be writing angry letters to newspapers and to public figures. One day last month Richard Pavlick decided to do something worthy of inclusion in Peyton Place: he made up his mind to kill a President-elect...
...expel the Teamsters and other unsavory unions from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. During the campaign he was a natural choice as a top labor adviser on the Kennedy team, and last week, when George Meany presented a list of five names of top A.F.L.-C.I.O. men as possibilities, the President-elect rejected them all to pick Arthur Goldberg as his personal choice...
...Tafari gradually emerged as the country's strongman. Upon the Empress' death in 1930, he mounted the throne (with typical flamboyance, he had five pet lions chained to the coronation dais). He took unto himself the name of Haile Selassie ("Power of the Trinity") and the titles Elect of God, King of Kings and Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah...
...belated victory dance, Illinois' twinkle-toed Governor-elect Otto Kerner, 52, kicked up his heels as if he had just heard the election returns. Democrat Kerner's elfin partners were two kiddies attending a Christmas party of Chicago's Off-the-Street Club, a civic organization that keeps children out of trouble and politicians out of smoke-filled rooms...
...with the gift for the "man who has everything, including a hangover," and sold a portable oxygen tank. Another customer who wanted "something new" got a watch specially made without numbers (it had only a single black dot). And then, of course, "the wife of the Vice President-elect came by and selected her inaugural gown along with a new suit...