Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a perilous plurality (118,000 votes out of a national total of 68 million) that he could in no sense be considered to have a mandate that might compel Congressmen to go along with him. Indeed, many winning Democratic Representatives and Senators who led Kennedy on the ticket within their own constituencies, could reasonably decide that they knew better than the young President about what was good for the people...
...only responsibility left to the outgoing passenger is to place his luggage in individual trays on a conveyor belt, only 16 inches from the street curb. After that, the bags are tagged and weighed while still on the belt, their flight number transmitted by the ticket agent (into a binary decimal code) on a device like a small adding machine, and lifted mechanically to a massive, subterranean maze of conveyors. As they hit the main conveyor belt, the bags are moved 500 feet in one minute to an area below the loading building where they circuit slowly, for as long...
Without visas, unable to afford a plane ticket, they arrive in Florida at the rate of 50 to 100 a week in stolen launches, by sailboat, fishermen's dory or makeshift raft, drifting up the Gulf Stream, from Cuba's northern coast 90 miles to the Florida keys. One group of five young men spent 2½ days at sea in an 8-ft. rowboat, at one point hailed a passing freighter for food and water. Their request was refused; it was a Russian ship...
...staging well-designed new productions, building an impressive roster of singers, and boldly doubling ticket prices for choice locations, Bing has boosted Met income higher than it has been since the days of Italian-born Impresario Gatti-Casazza's reign in the 1920s. But costs have soared even higher: last season the Met spent $6,950,000. Opera, said Bing last week, is "an art form never designed for the economics of the 20th century." The era has passed, he might have added, when men such as the late Banker Otto Kahn, the Met's perennial chairman...
...poverty, and one day, just for kicks, sets him adrift in a dinghy on the open sea. Rescued on the verge of sunstroke, Tom puts his vicious little mind to work on a vicious little scheme to get rid of Philip but still hang on to his meal ticket...