Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young woman of 29, hair parted in the middle. Her nose was a Nordic spud. She had a wide mouth, and she wore no cosmetics. But she was the most celebrated operatic soprano in the world, and a few days later a man bid $225 to buy the first ticket to her first concert in America...
...Wallace. But the following year the Wallace movement vanished like smoke in a windstorm, depriving A.D.A. of its original reason for being. In 1948, before the Democratic Convention, A.D.A. rooted against Harry Truman; some prominent A.D.A. members, including Chester Bowles and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., called for a Democratic ticket headed by General Dwight Eisenhower, then a political enigma. But after getting re-elected in 1948, Truman deprived A.D.A of the pleasures of opposition by trying to outdeal the New Deal. In 1952 and 1956, A.D.A. lost with Adlai Stevenson, but Ike failed to provide A.D.A. with any flaming causes...
...report on ticket sales distributed last week by the Council for Undergraduate Affairs discusses in generally ear and sensible terms an issue long clouded in misunderstanding. The report's proposals for change and arification in ticket policy are logical and modest; yet perhaps just for this reason, and because the sale of tickets is an essentially unglamorous topic, the report will probably not attract a great deal of attention. Indifference to the Council's work would be regrettable; hopefully, the straight-forwardness of the report's proposals will lead to their enactment...
...Mahout (drivers) probably would come from the African Junior E League, which has dubious amateur standing. Also, since the racing would be done in the Fall, many western schools would probably have Spring Training, something the Ivy League finds distasteful. Then, of course' the ageless problem of ticket distribution would present an explosive policy decision...
This years' budget exceeded any previous one by $500. Yet the ticket price $14 is the second cheapest in Jubilee history. (Past Jubilees have run as high as for the ticket...