Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beeching's bitterest pill was not the price increase, though it marked a 50% rise in ticket prices in 30 months (to 5.25? a mile for first class...
...crises of Nixon's life were 1) the Hiss case, which "left a residue of hatred and hostility toward me" 2) the Nixon fund, which almost got him tossed off the Republican national ticket in 1952; 3) the Eisenhower heart attack of 1955, when Nixon faced the delicate task of assuming responsibility without appearing to usurp power; 4) the riotous Nixon visit to South America in 1958, which almost ended in his death at the hands of a Caracas mob; Sy the "kitchen debate" with Khrushchev during Nixon's 1959 mission to Moscow, and " 6) the 1960 campaign...
...Eisenhower telephoned Nixon only once, three days after the furor broke in the press. "I have come to the conclusion," said Candidate Eisenhower to his running mate, "that you are the one who has to decide what to do ... If the impression got around that you got off the ticket because I forced you to get off. it is going to be very bad. On the other hand, if I issue a statement now backing you up. in effect people will accuse me of condoning wrongdoing." At the height of the fund crisis, Nixon wrote out a letter of withdrawal...
...National League. A seven-level pleasure dome of concrete, steel, aluminum, glass, plastic and brick, their new stadium is situated in Chavez Ravine, just five minutes from downtown Los Angeles, holds only 56,000 fans. But canny Dodger President Walter O'Malley expects no decline in revenues. Ticket prices range from $1.50 for a one-day unreserved ticket to $400 for a season pass to the "dugout boxes, and membership in the Stadium Club costs...
Though he is the grandson of former Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who successfully on an anti-war ticket Presidency in 1916, the 45-year-old or tried to establish himself as a candidate." His rivals in the Republican George Cabot and Democrats Edward Ted Kennedy. Hughes cited of those brand-name proof that Massachusetts become ingrown...