Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret hopes for an unprecedented landslide; it held the Democrats' last hopes for upsetting the form charts. The quiet was, in fact, about the only unfathomed factor of the 1956 campaign; every other index pointed to Eisenhower's reelection, probably with more than 380 electoral votes (see box...
...Hungary, the hangman had long since disposed of Rajk, but there was Erno Gero, who might bring off the act. If the crowds got too insistent, they could always bring back tractable Imre Nagy as front man, and for the tougher business of running the party, Janes Kadar (see box...
...formal logic and produce a correct answer to any logical problem fed it. Batteau, who had taken logic courses with Professor Quine and others, felt that all the rules could be set up in electronic circuits. He proceeded to construct the machine, "just for fun," and today a small box in Batteau's office can answer simple logical propositions fed into...
...track down 72 tickets for My Fair Lady, had to pay $22.50 apiece. Another company, which forgot to order World Series tickets awarded to a contest winner, put in an urgent call to its New York advertising agency to find four seats, got clipped $208 over the box-office price. As one adman explained: "We have a perfectly honest agent who gets our tickets at regular prices. We have very little trouble-just tip him around $250 each Christmas...
...enough good seats, the scalper has to tap several sources. He has friends mail in for tickets for potential hits, buys other tickets through theater benefits, paying the steep benefit markup. He also buys directly from the box office or from reputable brokers, often luring assistants to help him, since his money still speaks louder than the New York Department of Licenses, which has fruitlessly tried to end illegal ticket practices. Some small-timers find it profitable to sell their position in line for My Fair Lady's 30 standing-room tickets a day for as much...