Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wavering South. The biggest surprise was the South. Barely two weeks ago, Lyndon Johnson cockily asked politicos and pundits in Washington to pick just four states they thought Nixon would carry. Johnson certainly figured on carrying the normally Democratic South with himself on the ticket. Nixon even planned to stay out of the South, counting it lost after Johnson was added to the Democratic ticket...
...arms and handbags, housewives' broomhandles, children's strollers. It wriggles on the bodies of strip-teasers in burlesque houses, clings nonchalantly to girls clinging to their boyfriends on speeding motorcycles. So far has demand outrun production (7,000 a day) that many stores are forced to issue tickets entitling customers to buy a dakkochan when stocks are replenished. All night queues wind around entire blocks, and scalpers charge 500 yen ($1.39) not for a doll but for a low-numbered ticket...
...price of a ticket to the moon, in the children's nursery rhyme, was a single foundling penny and the method of transportation a kite. For the rocket-borne commercial space traveler of the future, the tab will be considerably higher-but still astonishingly low. In a detailed cost analysis presented to last week's international space symposium in Stockholm, three Douglas Aircraft Co. engineers estimated that a scant $500 should one day cover basic costs of one passenger's round-trip transportation, by nuclear spaceship, to the moon. The price to Mars: $4,000 during...
...analysis does not include "indirect costs" of operating a commercial space line-maintenance, administration, advertising, ticketing and profit-but its authors insist these charges should parallel standard airline operating expenses. All costs included, the estimated price of a round-trip ticket to the moon would be $900-about $40 less than the current first-class jet fare from New York to Paris and back...
...Republican Ticket: "I think the Nixon-Lodge ticket is going to do well." He would do "whatever I can" to help them win, but he indicated that he thought they did not need much help: "These two fellows can take care of them selves pretty well...