Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward M. Kennedy, 42. With his magic name and broad appeal, the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts can practically write his own ticket-including a presidential one. Teddy's recent trip to the Soviet Union and Western Europe, plus his well-publicized sponsorship of health-care legislation and an income tax cut, may well be the opening shots in a bid for the White House. But the twelve-year Senate veteran has been troubled by illness within his immediate family, and by public memories of Chappaquiddick...
Strange Lineup. To gain the support of Japan's conservative voters, Tanaka is campaigning as the defender of ancient Japanese virtues and patriotism (TIME, June 17). At the same time, he has tried to enhance the party's box office appeal by jazzing up the ticket with a strange lineup of candidates, including a well-known television interviewer, a slapstick comedian, Actress Akiko Santo and a skin-flick producer...
...show up, eye the girls, but are robbed, along with everyone else, when four masked men hit the place. The rest of the movie deals with the contortive lengths Cosby and Poitier go to to retrieve Poitier's wallet, which contains, as it turns out, a winning raffle ticket...
...than 100 words and endless riddles. For example, to get the calculator to devise words suggestive of the energy crisis: put 42.46407 into the machine, divide by 3 and multiply by 5. Upside down the machine spells ShELL OIL (the floating decimal separates the words). Faced with a parking ticket, the calculator owner can come up with Oh hELLS BELLS. To greet a friend, you divide 98 by 7 to get hl. A greater challenge is to ask friends what a golf duffer and the movie Casablanca have in common. If you punch 2572, add 87 and multiply...
...religious nature to the ceremony you are about to witness," Master of Ceremonies Don Cornelius advised the 21,000 rowdy wedding guests assembled at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Acting as if it were news to them, the mostly white crowd -who had paid $6.50 to $8.50 a ticket to watch Rock Star Sly Stone, 30, marry Actress Kathy Silva, the mother of his nine-month-old child-whistled and hooted when the preacher launched into the Lord's Prayer. The nuptials were billed as a "golden affair." Halston, the designer of the costumes, explained: "Sly is such...