Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...innocent-looking house by the side of the Florida road was in little danger of getting a speeding ticket: it was clocked at only 28 m.p.h. But a seemingly stationary palm tree was zipping along at a frightening 86 m.p.h. Or so recorded a radar unit, similar to ones used by police, that was tested for accuracy by Miami television station WTVJ. After the demonstration exposed such ludicrous errors, Judge Alfred Nesbitt ordered 950 speeding cases held in abeyance while he began a hearing on whether or not to accept radar readings as evidence...
...Gulag population as part of the destalinization drive, Maloumian was informed by the warden of Taishet, a prison in eastern Siberia, that his arrest had been a mistake and that he was to be declared "rehabilitated" and freed. Though he returned to France, where he became an airline ticket salesman, Maloumian never forgave the Soviets for his seven-year imprisonment and constantly sought reparations. Now, 23 years later, his efforts are beginning to pay off: Moscow has agreed to hear his case and has appointed a Soviet lawyer to examine...
...National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. For his four hours, twelve minutes and six seconds of work, Waltrip won $23,400. In 1968 the crowd at Darlington numbered some 22,000; this year nearly 68,000 (up 33% from 1978) paid between $10 and $30 a ticket to watch the jousting. Although the sport was born in the South and is still centered there, NASCAR's Grand National circuit, which uses only late-model sedans, visits Brooklyn, Mich., Dover, Del., and Ontario, Calif. Last year more than 1.5 million fans watched the races, and purses rose to $4.8 million...
...most extravagant--combining as it does the costs of a major theater and a symphony orchestra with the fees of prima donnas and temperamental tenors. An opera house cannot contain more than a few thousand seats without forcing singers' voices beyond their capacity, limiting the revenue available from ticket sales. The Met is squeezing as much as it can out of its ticket-buyers; at $40 an orchestra seat next season (up from $37.50 this year), an evening at the opera is probably the most expensive form of entertainment available to New Yorkers short of a meal at the Palace...
...glasses but ever anxious to assert his manhood, he headed the victorious Rough Riders, a ragtag group of Ivy Leaguers and hard-bitten frontiersmen out to "drive the Spaniard from the New World." Teddy came home as the most popular man in America and a cinch for the Republican ticket in 1900. Elected Vice President, he fretted about how he would keep busy. Six months after he took office, his worries on that score were over...