Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lennon and McCartney tune, and Prince Charles is firmly in the longhair set. In Harold Wilson, Downing Street sports a Yorkshire accent, a working-class attitude and a tolerance toward the young that includes Pop Singer "Screaming" Lord Sutch, who ran against him on the Teen-Age Party ticket in the last election. Mary Quant, who designs those clothes, Vidal Sassoon, the man with the magic comb, and the Rolling Stones, whose music is most In right now, reign as a new breed of royalty. Disks by the thousands spin in a widening orbit of discotheques, and elegant saloons have...
...name Excalibur SSK, has added a four-seat Mercedes Phaeton. Price: around $7,500. The classic American Cord has returned as a scaled-down convertible (four-fifths original size) that, like its predecessor, comes with front-wheel drive. Included in the $5,950 price: a one-way plane ticket to the factory in Tulsa, Okla., where the customer picks...
...planes somewhat less "airworthy" than they might otherwise be, also stand to make them somewhat less "crashworthy." To dress up the cabin, the manufacturers have put in nylon and Dacron seat covers, soundproofing and rugs; the stuff may be pleasing to the passengers' eyes and pay off in ticket sales, but it can generate black, toxic fumes in a fire. To save weight, and make easy changes in the cabin configuration, seats are not moored to the floor as firmly as possible. Stewardess training is sometimes more of a brief charm school than a careful safety course. The lines...
...long ago in Paris," recalled the speaker at Washington's Boiling Air Force Base, "I went to buy a ticket on the helicopter service. The girl at the counter asked me to spell my name. 'Oh,' she said, 'you spell it like our helicopter.' " Exactly. Aviation Pioneer Igor Sikorsky, 76, reminisced about the romance and passion of flying at a banquet honoring the father of the helicopter. "My first one was more vibration, dust and noise," he laughed, "and it couldn't fly. But now as an old man and as a designer...
...Hampshire sweepstakes this month is two years old. In that time, the state has grossed $10.5 million from the sweeps at $3 a ticket. After paying off winners (highest individual payment so far: $100,000) and covering operating expenses, it has distributed $5,255,000 among local school districts. The lottery has enabled New Hampshire to increase state aid to public education by more than...