Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years in office, phenomenally popular. From coast to coast local Republican candidates are reaching for his coattails, and each week he adds to his preelection schedule of personal campaigning. Most prognosticating to date has the Democrats picking up momentum and moving into position to challenge seriously the whole Republican ticket. But the fact seems to be that, at midpoint, the Republicans are doing well at the national level, not so well at the local level. Last week top G.O.P. campaign strategists met in Washington, saw no reason to change their basic plans. Reason: in the month before election Dwight Eisenhower...
...ground, the airlines already employ about 5,000 Negroes, roughly 4% of their working force, as fuelers, cleaners, mechanics, ticket sellers, secretaries. But in the air, no scheduled U.S. passenger line employs a Negro pilot, stewardess, navigator, flight engineer or radio operator. Since 1945, New York's antidiscrimination commission has investigated 16 complaints filed by disappointed Negro applicants against seven airlines, found some discrimination in half the cases...
Rematch. In Paterson, N.J., after police tagged him for speeding, John Kamenchuk climbed back into his car, yelled, "Let's see you catch me now," collected another speeding ticket and a charge of being disorderly after an 85-m.p.h. chase...
...quite deeply into the pockets of certain schools, and this year, all the staffs are praying for good weather. What is needed to solve this dilemma is an endowment for each school to absorb the costs of the athletic program, so that success need not be measured in ticket sales...
...instance, the deficit of the Harvard Athletic Association became so large, that when students' tuition was raised from $600 to $800 a year in 1953, a Department of Athletics was set-up to be financed in part by the tuition (now $1000). In return, students receive a free ticket to every home game...