Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the students circulated a petition, the airline gave each student a 3-dollar meal ticket and--at 3:30 a.m.--provided hotel rooms. The repaired plane took off the next morning without incident...
...Ticket Office, 60 Boylston St., will not be open Saturday. Change coupons for tickets to the hockey game until 5 p.m. tonight. Admission to events in the I.A.B. will be by coupon...
Rhode Island Republican John Chafee warned the legislature that state spending may run as much as $10 million above revenues in 1965, called for "a year of restraint." Republican Chafee, who won a fairly spectacular ticket-splitting victory amidst the Democratic sweep and is being watched as a Republican comer, faces a new test; in the past, he managed to cope with a narrowly Democratic legislature through his veto power, but now both houses have Democratic majorities large enough to override...
...Cubans, of course, are not about to tear up their Soviet meal ticket. But the Russians may be tired of watching $1,000,000 a day sink out of sight in the Caribbean, and they have yet to make a 1965 trade agreement with Cuba. While loudly proclaiming his independence, Castro made a point of telling his people that Cuba could carry on without Russian aid. "I absolutely do not have the slightest doubt that the country could survive such trials." He later announced a new five-year trade pact with Communist China, exchanging Cuban sugar for Chinese machines, rice...
...when the wandering Jews of Eastern Europe adopted the instrument from the gypsies. "The violin was inexpensive," says Boehm, "easy to carry, and it could cry and sing like the human voice. So it best expressed the bittersweet emotions of the Jew in his homelessness." "The violin was the ticket out of the ghetto," explains Isaac Stern. "Pianos were scarce; woodwinds didn't mean anything." As a result, Israel teems with violinists. The tiny nation's 32 music schools are brimming over with aspiring young fiddlers, and hundreds more study privately...