Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great is the exodus that the twice-weekly ferry has been sold out for six weeks ahead. In Havana, the Dutch KLM airline, with an average of 60 seats a week out of Cuba, finally had to lock the doors of its ticket office. Pan American was booked solid into August. As each plane landed in Miami, it was greeted by crowds of anxious exiles, beseeching the new arrivals for word of a brother, a husband, a parent remaining in Cuba...
Fiji is a $509.51 ticket from Pueblo, Colo., and 6,700 air miles away; Tanganyika and Atlanta are separated by 9,400 miles and $745.98 in air fare; Thailand and Passaic, N.J., by 10,500 miles and $694.46. Hard to get to, all those distant places-and expensive. Yet, in Pueblo, Atlanta and Passaic, and points between. Americans were feeling the irrepressible lure of exotic regions as they pored over maps and travel folders beckoning them to new horizons...
Eleven dollars will buy a one-way air ticket from Athens to Crete, and still another unseen aspect of the Greek way: Candia's fragrant food bazaar, the Minoan ruins near Knossos, and the high Lasethi plateau, crammed with hundreds of white-sailed windmills. In any of the little plateau villages, a traveler can buy his lunch merely by hailing, say, the butcher, who will put a table outside and provide wine, bread and cheese, while curious, good-natured Greeks in baggy trousers, sashes, boots, brocaded vests and fierce mustaches gather round and ask the stranger's name...
...Hungarian-born, American ex-Communist, adds nothing but corroboration to their impressive testimony; indeed, if his book has a place in anti-Communist literature, it comes from the fact that basically he was a very ordinary fellow. Not philosophical revulsion or a moral crisis, but outraged innocence was his ticket of leave from the party, and he writes in appropriate style, rather like an Eagle Scout who discovered that the fix was on at national headquarters...
Wonderful Flummery. Now, on the anniversary of the first shot in The War Between the States, G.W.T.W. has once more gone into crash release in 200 major theaters across the U.S. To judge from the block-long ticket lines and the weeping, cheering customers, Selznick's epic will make more money this time around than it ever has before. But surely the old warhorse has been spavined by time and enfeebled by continual exposure? Not at all. G.W.T.W. is as great a show today as it was 20 years ago, a magnificent piece of popular entertainment, undoubtedly the greatest...