Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friendship blossomed-profitably for Valenti, for in 1960 his agency handled Texas advertising for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. During that period, Valenti met Mary Margaret Wiley, a pretty Austin girl who had been one of Johnson's secretaries since...
Foreign diplomats in Washington piled up a total of 11,000 traffic tickets last year, an average of 100 per mission, with Russia topping the list. Not a single fine was paid. The tickets were all sent to an office in the State Department, where an official stamped CANCELED on them and dispatched them to the police in daily stacks. Reason for the wholesale ticket fixing: diplomatic immunity, the protective legal cloak that covers not only ambassadors but minor officials and even embassy employees from virtually all kinds of civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions...
Replacing Lechín on the M.N.R. ticket stirred up an unexpected storm. Paz hand-picked lackluster Senate President Federico Fortún Sanjinés as his new running mate, thereby offending several prominent right-wing M.N.R. leaders, whose vice-presidential choice was General René Barrientos Ortuño, 44, Bolivia's crewcut, U.S.-trained air force commander. Unmoved by their protests, Paz was all set to send Barrientos into semi-exile as ambassador to London, a classic Bolivian ploy for settling intraparty disputes. Then, late one night last month, Barrientos was mysteriously ambushed and shot...
During a snowfall on the University of Michigan campus, 5,000 students shivered in sleeping bags while waiting in line all night for tickets. In El Paso the fans pored over obituary notices, calling bereaved families in the tiny hope of snapping up the loved one's ticket...
...Caddie was barreling along at 76 m.p.h. That was exactly 46 too many, and Denver's Champion Ticket Writer James ("Buster") Snider set out to add another notch to his pad. Some notch. The driver turned out to be Defeated Champion Sonny Listen, who just hours before had been happily modeling hats with his wife. Sadly, Sonny did not have a valid Colorado driver's license...