Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blamed entirely on Watergate. Contributing to their doldrums are the energy crisis, the sagging economy, the traditional dissatisfaction with the party in power. But Watergate is prompting some officeholders to retire prematurely rather than face uphill battles for reelection, and dissuading scores of newcomers from running on the G.O.P. ticket. "Even in the safe districts," an Illinois party official admits, "they're shaking hands like mad just to stay alive...
WHEN NEW YORK City had its election in November, the Democratic candidates--Harrison J. Goldin, Paul O'Dwyer, and Abraham D. Beame--swept the three citywide positions, controller, city council president, and mayor. In some ways, it was an interesting ticket. Harrison J. Goldin had first run for controller four years before. "Vote for Harrison J. Goldin," his shopping bags in 1969 recommended. "He's a young dynamo." Goldin did not use this slogan in 1973. Maybe he thought his performance in '69 showed that voters don't like youth. In the year of the energy crisis, maybe...
...Churchill of "petrified adolescence." (The patrician Prime Minister, in the course of their 26-year feud, called Bevan a "squalid nuisance" and later "Minister of Disease.") In one of the worst gaffes of his career, Bevan denounced Conservatives-presumably, all 8,093,858 Britons who had voted the Tory ticket in 1945-as "lower than vermin." Nor were his own leaders spared Nye's spiced tongue. He thought of his Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, as a Mirabeau and an archmediocrity. He called the humane and thoughtful Hugh Gaitskell, Attlee's successor as party leader, a "desiccated calculating machine...
Never in the history of American rock has a tour aroused so much public interest. Within hours after mailorder tickets were put on sale, more than 5,000,000 letters, each requesting an average of three tickets, inundated post offices along the tour route. One trade paper calculated that 7.5% of the population of the U.S. had requested tickets to see Dylan and his bluesy bayou back-up group, the Band. In Los Angeles County, the 18,700-seat Forum received about 300,000 ticket requests. In New York City, Dylan followers seeking 12:01 a.m. postmarks on first-come...
...Tickets for the Harvard-Cornell hockey game this Wednesday may also be purchased at the ticket window today. Students may exchange coupons, but only one per customer...