Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles apart in upstate New York, Republicans and Democrats met for the election-year business of selecting candidates. Two days later the Democrats left Buffalo tattered and torn with party strife (see below), and beaming Republicans took dead aim on November with a unified front for an appealing ticket. The top Republican nominees: for Governor, square-jawed Millionaire Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 50, of Manhattan and Westchester County; for U.S. Senator, white-thatched U.S. Representative Kenneth Keating, 58, of upstate Rochester...
...series topped off a giant elimination contest involving most of the 4,800 Little Leagues now spreads over much of the world. Monterrey earned its return ticket to Williamsport by whipping teams from Mexico City, Puerto Rico and Venezuela in the Latin American eliminations. Mostly poor kids, many of the Monterrey players worked as bootblacks to supplement the income of their fathers, who work in mills and factories for wages as low as $1.50 a day. But they were fine ballplayers, especially Héctor Epitacio Torres, 12, the skinny (85 Ibs.) star pitcher. Nicknamed Malita (evil little woman) because...
...Then he startled easygoing Cape Codders by decreeing black tie the style at his lavish parties.* He sparked the move to stage a nationwide art festival, smooth-talked some 300 year-round residents into contributing their time and effort free "for the good of Provincetown." He acts as second ticket-taker at his museum (and makes the volunteer workers pay the going $1.50 for the catalogue), while his wife Jean handles lunch-relief shifts at the festival gates. Some Provincetowners have found Chrysler's headlong pursuit of culture distasteful, but they appreciate "the artistic climate created" by his enterprise...
Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 is constantly popping up on playbills. But when you buy your ticket you don't know what you're going to see, for Tonight is a nonet of one-acters from which any given production is supposed to choose three. Unfortunately, the nine are of uneven quality; and so, perforce, will be the 84 possible shows...
...last week The Music Man was a well-established wow. Ticket-hungry New Yorkers and summer visitors swarmed around the box office at every performance, trying to wangle one or two seats in the orchestra ($8.05)-or even a square foot of standing space ($3). The Music Man was the toughest ticket in town, even harder to snag than My Fair Lady, and, for expense-account buyers, worth the $50 scalpers' price...