Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with three fatal accidents, but only 45 people were killed in 1976?compared with 124 the year before. Flying by commercial jet in the U.S. is now at least 15 times as safe per passenger-mile as driving in a car. The passenger who shows his ticket to the smiling stewardess and buckles himself into his narrow seat has a 99.999% chance of arriving at his destination safe and sound. Indeed, flying has become so routine that the notably pragmatic insurance companies charge pilots no more for policies than they do ribbon clerks...
...contain the Socialist-Communist tide!" In the first of two rounds of nationwide municipal elections last week, Chirac won enough support virtually to assure his election as mayor. But outside the capital, he barely managed to keep his finger in the dike. Socialists and Communists, running on a combined ticket, in many areas routed candidates jointly put up by Chirac and President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Although their total vote was slightly below the 53% they registered in last year's cantonal elections, the leftists gained control of municipal councils in 32 cities of more than...
...least there were the memorable fights over seats for the ticket holders who were delegated to the rear of the cavernous theater, where the seat numbers have been obliterated over 60-odd years. For the others, there were only yawns and bitterness, bitterness toward the bunch of shrewd entrepreneurs who packaged the show so craftily that the dated goods--eight years after opening on Broadway--sells out every night in every city on the road company's itinerary...
...this point, while the reverberations of the clash that accompanied the show's Broadway opening are still sifting across the country, there is very little the entrepreneurs need do to sustain ticket sales. The memory of the ruckus--along with a four-letter word beginning with "n"--is all it takes. Beyond that, not many people who'd been clattering about the show before it opened Wednesday knew much about it. Not even the city councilors, who wanted to go on record as having opposed the granting of a license, had much idea what they were trying to ban. Mavor...
...turned out, nobody's I.D. was checked--perhaps because few "children" could afford the show's rather steep ticket prices in the first place. And the whole council debate on the subject apparently rattled Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci sufficiently for him to declare afterward that "it's getting to be like Russia around here...