Word: ticketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farmer opposed Nixon when he ran for Congress during the last election in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant district. A registered Liberal, he ran on the Republican ticket but supported Hubert Humphrey. The Negro district elected Democrat Shirley Chisholm, making her the first Negro Congresswoman. In recent weeks, Farmer has been increasingly impressed by Nixon ("He means to bring the nation together...
...this season. While last week's dog show played to a sedate audience of 8,000, the Knicks turned away at least that many ticket seekers three nights earlier, when they defeated the Baltimore Bullets, leaders in the N.B.A.'s Eastern Division, 106-100 before a sell out crowd of 19,500. The difference is that the Knicks are now playing as though they were the top dogs in the league. As of last week, the streaking New Yorkers had won 19 straight games at home and 27 out of their last 31 starts...
...other raffle, of entire girls, "was not organized to titillate," Diorita C. Fletcher '71, president of East House, said. The seven winners of the raffle, who paid 25 cents per ticket, were greeted with a smile and a cup cake. "It's fraud!" cried one dejected winner. "I didn't even get a kiss," he said. The cupcakes were selling earlier for ten cents...
...This is not a raffle of Cliffie bodies," Miss Fletcher said to the 160 raffle ticket purchasers. "But that is not to say that that won't happen in the future," she said...
While this may be the case for some producers, many others are moving away from the expensive tryout and doing all their fixing in two or three weeks of paid (often at reduced ticket prices) previews in New York. Very few straight plays tryout out of town anymore, although this does not prevent some (such as Murray Schisgal's Way of Life, which folded during previews last week) from closing before facing any critics...