Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Physically the U.S. theater is more robust than its gloomy pulse takers are willing to admit. Broadway is staging a minor revolution, from spruced-up theaters to flexible ticket pricing. Coast to coast, regional theaters are sprouting. But a handsome playhouse or sounder show-business economics does not make a home for a living theater unless there exist playwrights with something...
...British press and in the recollections of travelers, there were grumblings that BEA's troubles were more than a temporary matter of faulty compressor bearings. There were complaints of repeated delays of many hours, of misrouted baggage, of surly or couldn't-care-less service at ticket counters, of flights oversold by as many as 20 tickets, of cabin crews dispatched to the wrong planes, and of flights simply canceled at the last minute-as many as four in a day. Like other airlines, BEA prints conditions on its tickets, such as "No particular time is fixed...
...victory over conservative State Legislator James S. Erwin, also 45. Chairman of the National Governors' Conference, Reed faces a stiff challenge from the Democratic nominee, Secretary of State Kenneth M. Curtis, 35, but stands to benefit from U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith's presence on the G.O.P. ticket. In her quest for a fourth term, the redoubtable Mrs. Smith has a little-known opponent-the Democrats apparently figuring that to mount a determined challenge would only bring out a Smith vote that could swamp their entire slate...
...good as solving the crime." When a Polish alder man proposed renaming an expressway after the Polish General Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko, Royko explained why the idea would never work. "In fact, 98% of all policemen cannot spell it, so it would be impossible for anyone to get a ticket...
...pare fares again. It asked Civil Aeronautics Board permission to introduce nighttime "adult stand-by fares" one-third cheaper than the economy fare. For any passenger willing to wait for a seat on a space-available basis starting at 9:35 p.m., a one-way Chicago-Los Angeles ticket, for example, would cost $60 instead...