Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pick some real candidates-usually local workers, peasants or minor officials. About three weeks before election day, the party passes the word on the nominees it considers most worthy; the others promptly withdraw. The candidates thus chosen (about 80% of them members of the Communist Party) form a single ticket of what is known as the "bloc of Communist and nonparty candidates." The system does not provide for any opposition candidates...
...future, Pyne said, when an unregistered vehicle is ticketed, the number of his license plates is sent to the motor vehicles division of his home state so that his name may be discovered. If he does not respond to the regular police summons, his ticket is turned over to the Dean's Office where fines are transferred to term bills. Persistent violators are subject to disciplinary action...
...master of satire and quick wit, Attila has made the calypso, often called Trinidad's "living newspaper," a potent force in local politics. Under his real name, Raymond Quevedo, he has been elected on the Labor Party ticket to Port-of-Spain's city council...
This is of no help to students, however, for the University gives all subscriptions to the faculty. The only thing it has done to meet the student demand for tickets was to offer 82 rush seats. Anyone who has seen the long lines for these tickets, and the great number of students turned away each time, knows the complete inadequacy of this small number. The bizarre attitude has now developed that the concerts are given for the faculty, and that there is no reason for the ticket distributors even to consider the students. But students are obviously a major part...
...ticket-selling bureaucracy will clearly not change its ways on its own initiative. The only group that can influence both the Harvard ticket distribution system and Symphony Hall to allow a fair number of students to hear these concerts is the Music department. This department should use its influence to have Symphony Hall request its Cambridge customers to subscribe to a regular Boston series--it should make little difference to most of them. Then, the department should insist on a redistribution of the tickets at the disposal of the University so that a reasonable number of students can get into...