Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people to back up struggling franchises now," says Boston Sports Attorney Bob Woolf, and TV networks no longer bail out new leagues with-fat broadcast contracts. Even long-established leagues are suffering: a majority of the National Basketball Association's 18 teams are losing money. Once unobtainable, tickets to New York Knicks games against N.B.A. opponents are suddenly easier to get now that inflation has driven Madison Square Garden ticket prices as high as $10.50 each...
...took place last week on a posh Manhattan reservation where Brando was chairman of a gala starring Guest of Honor Ethel Kennedy and Entertainers Harry Belafonte, Arlo Guthrie and Buffy Sainte-Marie to raise money for the impoverished U.S. Indians. Although some 300 guests paid up to $125 a ticket, the host could not even light a peace pipe right. Wearing a navy velvet jacket and turquoise beads given him by a Hopi chief, Brando arrived flanked by three magnificently attired Indians after announcing: "There's something obscene about dressing up and inviting a lot of rich people...
...next day the Free Press, which had endorsed the Republican ticket, demanded in a blunt editorial by Editorial Page Editor Joe H. Stroud that Damman be dumped. The Republicans countered by sending their lawyers to meet with Free Press editors and the two reporters, who, says Tyson, were told by the newspaper's counsel not to engage in debate. The result, to Tyson's dismay, was a Free Press editorial reversal, again written by Stroud, 48 hours before the election, stating that the paper did not have enough facts to support the charges. Angered, the city news staff...
...resistance leaders who stayed in Greece to fight the junta won seats in the new Parliament. So did Alexandras Panagoulis, the would-be assassin of ex-Dictator George Papadopoulos. But Actress Melina Mercouri, an outspoken opponent of the old regime, went down to a narrow defeat on the Pasok ticket in her working-class district in Piraeus. Another loser was Composer Mikis Theodorakis, who ran as one of the candidates of the United Left, an umbrella organization of Greece's three Communist parties...
...reason given was that the job of running the Met has become too complex for any one man. Well it may. The company's deficit is expected to be $9 million this year. Offsetting corporate and private contributions have dwindled because of the recession. Ticket sales (worth $10.3 million last year) are off another 3%. Most of the Met's $10 million endowment now has been expended to help meet the $3.8 million a year it costs just to maintain the house. Bliss, who is credited with bringing financial stability to the Jeffrey Ballet, must start full-scale...