Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upper crust has always been basically international. But the jet plane has raised the mobility of the well-heeled to the point where national boundaries blur, distances telescope, and the only trouble is trying to figure out what time it is. Just getting around is a kind of admission ticket to the International Set. "The main thing is to be seen in enough right places often enough," said Photographer Zerbe over his shoulder as he hopped a jet in Paris for Rome. "If you're seen at St.-Moritz for the skiing in February, on the beach...
...more than 700,000 abortions reported annually in Japan, a small but increasing number-one Tokyo abortionist puts it at something less than 1,000-are performed on American women. Though the trip itself is expensive ($783 for a round-trip tourist ticket from Los Angeles), the operation may cost no more than $15. Last week's traveler was only seeking the same solution that a couple of million American women a year stay home to find...
Charlie aside, Milty's first two weeks seem to have been pleasant ones. Business is increasing ("Volume is our middle name" says one sign in the shop)--especially as people begin to discover Milty's ace in the hole: a $6 meal ticket for $5. Milty looks to the future, i.e. the Fall, with considerable calm. "We think you'll like us," he says in an unruffled manner. I think you and every other Antiant will...
...have a job there, but I'll find one. They say the British hate to work as servants or in other lower-class jobs." A thin, middle-aged man in a brown pin-stripe suit, sizes too large for him, anxiously clutched his one-way ticket (cost: $238). When the flight was announced, a child was lifted high to wave goodbye to its mother; a pregnant woman pressed forward for a last glimpse of her husband as he entered the plane. Just before the door shut, a policeman threw on board a straw basket forgotten by an excited traveler...
...retailer's lexicon, "soft goods" means anything with a short life-clothes, accessories, costume jewelry. Soft goods take up far less store space than "big-ticket" hard goods such as washers or TV sets. They also turn over much faster and are generally more profitable because people-particularly women-are willing to pay more for that intangible called "fashion." But the world of soft goods is a pink jungle in which stores compete savagely for the best styles and stylists, and a great deal depends upon cozy relationships built up over the years between the manufacturer's "vendors...