Word: ticket
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...those old movies about a group of wildly disparate travelers locked together in a tight situation. For the people are plausible only as creations of a novelist at the end of his rope, searching for something to add zest to his book. A 1948 Presidential candidate on the Vegetarian ticket and his stiff-upper-lipped wife; a mysterious adventurer, escaping from Philadelphia; a Negro undertaker who utters only "yes" and "no" and bursts into tears at the end of the trip--almost a floating "I Love Lucy...
When Fred Friendly has a headache, he thinks the whole world is in pain. Friendly, who is president of CBS News, got a ticket for speeding, and as punishment was directed to take a New York State driving test. He passed it, but he thought the rest of the country ought to take it too. Last May he arrested 30 million Americans on CBS's National Drivers Test...
Nearly 2,000 guests paid a modest $15 a ticket for the ostensible purpose of welcoming O'Donnell home-even though he returned from Washington nearly a year ago. Bobby and Teddy Kennedy were there. Dave Powers, White House jester during the Kennedy years, served as master of ceremonies. Benjamin Smith, who was J.F.K.'s Harvard roommate and later warmed the U.S. Senate seat to which Teddy Kennedy was elected, was on display. Others on the dais included Andy Hatcher, a former White House press aide, and Dick Goodwin, a Kennedy speechwriter who was drafted by Lyndon Johnson...
...scenes: pursuit, betrayal, suicide, failure, adulterous love. Brown is returning to the hotel-emptied of tourists by Papa Doc Duvalier's inhospitable island regime-that he has been unable to sell in the States. Smith, a 1948 U.S. presidential candidate who polled 10,000 votes on the vegetarian ticket, dreams of converting the Haitians to a diet of Yeastrol and Nuttoline. Jones drifts in and out of focus as an ambiguous, flat-footed soldier of fortune so encircled by his enemies that Port au Prince is his last remaining port of call...
...states retain two-year terms for their legislators for equally valid reasons. It is also impossible to follow the President's contention that better men will be attracted into government by a four-year term; on the contrary, many districts may begin electing political hacks who let the national ticket do all the talking for them...