Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defeated for delegate. Last week he contemplated the prospect of a McGovern nomination and said dolefully: "Unless the party comes to its senses, it will destroy all of us. The acrimony and dissension will be suicidal. The disaster this fall will not only be felt on the national ticket but on statewide Democratic tickets as well...
...more than 100,000 jazz buffs had paid a total of $500,000 to listen to a music that more than a foolish few had considered dead years ago, gone with Kid Ory, Bunny Berigan and Charlie Parker. Some, indeed, settled in for the duration, paying $122 for a ticket to all 30 events...
When the Stones open at Madison Square Garden in New York on July 24, it will be the climax of their seventh U.S. tour, which has been, in purely show-biz terms, a vast success. Every concert they have given has been packed solid, the tickets all sold weeks in advance; in San Francisco, the barter price for a $5.00 ticket was an ounce of grass and seven grams of hash, or, from scalpers, $50 cash; by Chicago, the price for a $6.50 ticket had risen to $70-accompanied by the rumor that someone had printed and sold a quarter...
...them rowed for Harvard's varsity at one time or another. Which seems to indicate that Harvard has had the best oarsmen in the nation all along, just as it did in 1968, when the Crimson varsity edged Pennsylvania in a showdown at Long Beach to earn a ticket to Mexico. Or that Parker, who has been varsity coach at Cambridge for a decade, is biased in favor of his own followers, which is what a few rival coaches are muttering...
...claims "a legalized racket," noting that the Pennsylvania state lottery pays out to winners more of the money it collects (45? on the dollar) than auto insurers pay out on claims to accident victims (about 42? on the dollar). Says Denenberg: "You are better off with a goddamned lottery ticket...