Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fare Games. The ticket takers bank on the average American's ready belief that just about anything can be got wholesale (airline tickets cannot). Often the crooks pass the word around that they are part-time "travel consultants" authorized to sell "discount" tickets at 10% to 40% under regular fares. One Los Angeles con man had been making the rounds of airport bars and restaurants, offering to sacrifice his commission and sell tickets cheap so that he could "build up a large sales report." Another imaginative fellow liked to tell prospects he was in the all-expenses-paid type...
Hoping to stop the phonies at the reservations counters, the airlines are offering clerks a $25 reward for each ticket they spot against a list of the stolen blanks' serial numbers-which is the only way they can be positively detected. Meanwhile the lines are spreading the word that the discount tickets are no bargain. Passengers caught with them can be arrested for using stolen property, though unwitting travelers get off easily. Last month TWA investigators caught up with two young girls who had made it to Madrid on bogus tickets they had bought in Los Angeles. Convinced that...
...TICKET THAT EXPLODED by William S. Burroughs. 217 pages. Grove Press...
This reference to a vaguely defined crew of galactic pirates makes the book sound entertaining-a sort of avant-garde James Bond adventure. It is nothing of the kind. The Ticket That Exploded, revised since it was first published in France five years ago, is a nightmare of pornography, disjointed prose,* spaceships powered by copulation, frog people, hangings, and "Sex Skins," which devour people in what apparently is the ultimate ecstasy of death...
...result must be wholly pleasing to an author who is currently working on a book written in a new "art form" wherein pages of prose by two different writers are split down the middle, pasted together, and their sentences merged to form one great nonstory. In Ticket he has simply experimented by splicing tapes from two or three recorders. "Any number can play," he says. "Why stop there? Why stop anywhere...