Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meal Ticket. Finally, after a border skirmish earlier this month in which Algerian troops killed ten Moroccan soldiers, Hassan mobilized his crack, 35,000-man royal army. The immediate military targets were two tiny, desolate outposts: Hassi Beida, little more than a water hole and a few palm trees perched on a stony hill, and Tin-joub, a mud-walled fort seven miles to the east. One day last week a battalion of 1,000 Moroccan infantry armed with bazookas, recoilless cannon and heavy machine guns stormed both outposts, seized them after a four-hour battle in which at least...
...demagogic best, Ben Bella proclaimed total mobilization to fight the imaginary "collusion" between the Kabylia rebels and the "feudal monarchy" of Morocco. "Hassan to the gallows," yelled the crowd of 100,000. Thousands of jobless, hungry Algerians happily joined the army, partly to get a free meal ticket. Ben Bella showed up in the National Assembly in a brand-new battle jacket, urged the Deputies to "give up your neckties and cuff links" and sign up too. Most did, and the Assembly was dissolved until further notice...
...still have over 6,000 good seats left," Frank O. Lunden, Department of Athletics ticket manager, said yesterday. "But we expect a crowd of well over 25,000, which is very rare. The last two Dartmouth games each drew about 27,500 people." Present Stadium capacity is 37,289, approximately 20,000 less than in the year when quarterback Barry Wood '32 led the Crimson, before packed stands, to a 7-0 victory over Holy Cross...
...Ticket sales are continuing at a rapid rate. The seats still available are those reserved section in the colonnades, up in back of the open stands, and they were being purchased yesterday at Department of Athletics headquarters by fans who had to wait in a line which often grew to 30 people. Tickets will continue on sale there until the game, or until the supply runs...
Undergraduate ticket applications for the Harvard-Dartmouth game must be placed in the H.A.A class boxes at 60 Boyiston St. by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Application envelopes are presently available from House athletic secretaries and may be submitted today, tomorrow, or Wednesday between...