Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take his 81 delegates to Los Angeles without any commitments. Pennsylvania's Lawrence, whose 81 convention votes could put the nomination in Kennedy's lap, still opposes him and remains, in fact, the one Democratic boss with the strength and prestige to put together a stop-Kennedy ticket. Says Lawrence (who leans toward Adlai Stevenson or Stuart Symington): Kennedy is "a very able young man," but "as far as the Democratic leadership in Pennsylvania is concerned, we're not announcing for any candidate at this time." One leader promptly disagreed: Hiram G. Andrews, speaker of Pennsylvania...
...Kennedymen, this meant only one thing: that Kennedy-leaning Dick Daley would probably throw a sizable number of Illinois' 69 delegates into Jack's pot before the convention. (Had he run for Governor, Daley would not be expected to support another Catholic at the head of the ticket...
...Tuskegee, Ala., birthplace of Tuskegee Institute (for Negroes), the Macon Theater had the last word in separate but equal cinema. The separate ticket offices, separate entrances, and separate concessions were old as midnight popcorn, but there was an added feature: a ceiling-to-floor partition, running down the middle of the auditorium. There were 324 seats on the white side and 336 seats on the colored side. Up front: two separate but equal silver screens...
...commute to work by horse bus and rail. It was only in the U.S., with its spreading cities and changing population patterns, that the commuter came into his own as a widespread social phenomenon. He got a big boost from the introduction of the cut-fare commutation ticket for those who ride the rails daily...
...hikes in the last few years, it is still one of the biggest bargains in the U.S. For example, a commuter can ride on the New Haven between Manhattan and Larchmont, N.Y., a commuter bedroom 19 miles from the city, for 50? a ride on a 46-ride commutation ticket-one-fourth or less of what it would cost to drive his car, not counting parking fees. One reason for the low fares is that U.S. railroads still suffer from the bad reputation earned in the days of the Robber Barons, when, as a monopoly, they often gouged the public...