Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...babies, juvenile delinquency, and sundry other sins. He lost again to Stevenson. But in a dramatic tussle for the vice-presidential nomination, the gawky Tennessee lawyer managed to produce a razor-thin victory over Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy after a thrilling roll-call fight. But when the Democratic ticket went down to crashing defeat that November, Estes Kefauver's great days were over...
...minded suburban housewives it enjoys minor fame as the birthplace of the potato chip. James Gordon Bennett was moved to entitle it "the seraglio of the prurient aristocracy." To the rheumy rich of the '90s it was "The Spa," and its eggy sulphur waters were just the ticket for constipation and gout. But now the seltzer baths belong to the state, and for eleven months out of the year Saratoga Springs (pop. 16,000) is a quiet upstate New York town with no visible means of support. Then August rolls around, and Saratoga miraculously comes alive. Bottles of Bellinger...
Last week the Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision freeing Fernandes. The confident columnist had already bought his ticket back to Rio where he promptly called a press conference. "I will continue to publish any information of interest, be it of a military nature or not," he said. Then he sat down and wrote about his arrest and army interrogations. He was not about to forgive and forget. He called his story "Diary of an Act of Despotism...
...longer needs her cash. He is free, a man. She has nothing but herself, an emptiness that only he can fill. He tries to. He buys her expensive dresses; she refuses to accept them. He clears away the mortgage; she says she hates the house. He hands her a ticket to Europe; she swears she will not go. What does she want? Her sister thinks she knows: "You want to sleep with him. You always have." But the audience knows better: she really wants to devour him. And at the climax she does...
Hotel, occupancy early this month was down to 70% when the hotel and Trans Caribbean Airways began offering a double for seven nights and eight days, with two meals daily, plus a round-trip ticket from New York, for $239. Within two weeks business jumped to 95% of capacity. Some hotels do not charge for kiddies 14 and under; when the tiniest members are along, they throw in free baby sitters...