Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home: their safety, their pocketbooks, their neighborhoods. The candidates who won responded to these needs-but not according to any fixed ideology. If law-and-order worked in Cleveland and Philadelphia, it failed in Boston. Blacks did not always vote in a bloc and-like whites-split their ticket as they pleased. The newly enfranchised 18-to 21-year-old voters were conspicuous for working with -and not against-their elders. In Virginia, an independent won the race for lieutenant governor on a populist platform that cut across class and ethnic lines, offering a seeming palliative for almost every plain...
...blacks hold voting majorities, and overall they now amount to 28% of the registered electorate. If all blacks of voting age were registered, they would make up 33% of the registered voters in the state. With Charles Evers, brother of slain Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers, spearheading an independent ticket in the race for Governor, Mississippi blacks decided to challenge the white majority by offering 284 candidates for posts ranging from the state legislature to the school board to the sheriff's office. Black leaders believed that the concerted campaign would be the turning point in their struggle...
Needed: ESP. A dispute about ticket-price increases by the 26 professional football teams has reached the federal courts, where the Government is suing the Atlanta Falcons in a test case. The teams contend that the increase is legal because it was posted before the freeze. The Government points out that the first games to which the higher prices apply were played during the freeze...
...rented out to hustlers of the quick buck. Their business instincts, however, are far from infallible; they frequently seem to mistake an anachronism for a trend. A year ago. No, No, Nanette opened with a box office bang, and the producing fraternity promptly decided that nostalgia was the hottest ticket around. This accounts for the fact that 1944's On The Town is the newest Broadway entry...
Loss Leader. Next to product, price was the topic most discussed by NATO last week. Chicago's Lewis reported that "there's been almost an organized rebellion against the $3 ticket," and called for price cuts. Ben Sack, a Boston chain owner, spoke vehemently against reductions, warning that "the next thing you will be giving away dishes again like they did in the Depression." Too late. The price war is on, and in Detroit they are giving away dishes, while elsewhere there are "football widows' nights" on Mondays, "early bird" matinees, even free admissions on off days...