Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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London's stately Albert Hall has long been a choice working ground for the piebald bevy of street musicians, sing ers and dancers known as buskers. Let a ticket line form on the sidewalk out side and the buskers were there to clown, sing and fiddle, while their bottlers (assistants) passed the hat for coppers and shillings like Dickensian urchins in the night. Last week there were no buskers on the sidewalk. Instead, 40 of them were inside giving the concert of their lives. And no one had to pass a hat: more than 3,700 persons paid...
...million in 1967; profits were still higher last year. Johnson raised the investment in new cars and track and computerized the line's traffic-information operation. At the railroad's Chicago commuter stations, he installed turnstiles that open automatically when a passenger inserts a magnetically coded ticket in a slot. Through a merger now awaiting approval by the Interstate Commerce Commission, Johnson hopes to link his railroad-which covers 6,714 miles in 14 states, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico-with the 2,734-mile Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, whose tracks often parallel the Illinois...
...years I have had the opportunity to study most other airline operations, and we are no more inferior than quite a few I could mention. If fairness is your doctrine, you might mention the long hours put in by our executives; the patient humor and heroic efforts of pur ticket agents, operations and reservations staffs who have lived through this six-month nightmare-that is the real story...
...chairman of Humphrey's 1968 campaign, Harris was only narrowly edged out by Muskie for the No. 2 spot on the ticket. By 1972, the Democratic nominee, backed by a rejuvenated party, might well look no further than the chairman's office at national headquarters to pick a nationally known running mate...
...long-term 90% mortgage at a low interest rate, a municipal real-estate-tax exemption, and investment in schools, and other capital improvements. Total assistance over 40 years, reckons Architectural Critic Walter McQuade in Architectural Forum, will reach about half a billion dollars. "Government is paying most of the ticket on this trip," he adds, "and government has the right to insist that the destination be pointed not only by economics, but by sociology and architectural talent as well...