Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though evident only for the two months since 1975 models were introduced, the drastic dropoff in the nation's bellwether manufacturing industry is al ready threatening the recession-plagued economy. The auto slump is stirring fears among economists that sales of such smaller-ticket items as appliances and television sets are in line for further declines as the ripples spread throughout the economy. But the first to feel the effects of a prolonged slump would be steel, rubber and glassmakers, whose products go into automobiles (see diagram...
...woman) of 1975. How many of the gang, for example, will be able to boast of a day's skiing with coaching by Jean-Claude Killy at Val d'Isere, France (for a mere $4,325, not including travel and accommodations)? For the price of an airline ticket to California, plus board and meals, plus $115,000, the gift recipient can take ten private swimming lessons with Mark Spitz. Want to be the best dancer at the country club? Mitzi Gaynor will dedicate a whole day of terpsichorean tutoring...
...last night, scalpers' prices for tickets to the game were running as high as $50 per ticket. Colt said that was a better price than the $100 desperate alumni have been forced to pay for Harvard-Yale tickets...
...important as the growth in the number of women candidates is the quality of their credentials. Of the six new women members of the U.S. House, for example, only one, Marilyn Lloyd, 44, of Tennessee, is a widow who was chosen to replace her husband on the ticket. The other five: Democrat Helen Stevenson Meyner, 46, wife of former New Jersey Governor Robert Meyner, who has been politically active since her husband left office in 1962; Republican Millicent Fenwick, 64, who gave up her post as director of the New Jersey State Division of Consumer Affairs to run for Congress...
...years old. Boys five years older than he were earning $2.78 a week in the sweatshops of Brooklyn, as Manchester might already have learned. (Even at ten he was a compulsive newspaper reader.) But then prime rib roast cost only 21? per lb., and young Manchester could buy a ticket to see Jackie Cooper in the "talkie" When a Feller Needs a Friend for 10?. The real trouble was that 28% of all Americans had no income...