Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moving through the crowds, he was at his best. At the Westfield, Mass., airport, Bill Kelleher, 65, shook his hand and said afterward, "I love him. I was gonna vote for Nixon until he got on the ticket. I just love the guy, I dunno why, I just do." And in an East Boston public health center, Mrs. Doris Blakey shook Shriver's hand and said, "I love him, oh yes I do, my haht's goin' boom boom boom...
While a consul's primary role is to assist Americans abroad, there are a great many misconceptions about his powers. If the State Department gives prior approval, a consul can aid a strandee by making a repatriation loan for the price of a return ticket, plus a small subsistence allowance-both on condition that the strandee surrender his passport. The State Department then holds the passport until the loan is repaid. In practice, only the mentally ill, the seriously injured, the infirm, the aged and "those with a hardship story good enough to make strong men weep," to quote...
...something-even if it is defeat. "Look, we don't always have to win," says another union official. "We supported Adlai Stevenson on principle because he was right. Being the underdog doesn't bother us." Union leaders also worry that failure to support the top of the ticket will hurt other candidates on the ballot and jeopardize Democratic control of Congress. Traditionally, labor can expect little aid and comfort from Republicans...
...gave his blessing to the entire Daley ticket, including State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan, who is under indictment for obstructing justice in the investigation of the killing of two Black Panthers. McGovern can only hope that his courtship of Daley will be considered a pragmatic necessity by his demanding followers. For all that, Daley has yet to make a move to work for McGovern in Chicago...
Even veteran Civil Aeronautics Board investigators were a bit bemused when, during a recent spot check of a group on a bargain-price charter flight from New York's J.F.K. Airport, they found an 81-year-old woman brandishing a youth-fare airline ticket. The incident reflects the widespread abuse of the regulations governing cut-rate charters, especially on the North Atlantic run, by so-called "charter consolidators," also known as "body brokers." Recently the CAB began a drive to clip their wings, and it has forced many out of business. In the process, it has stranded thousands...