Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic state ticket sponsored a mixer and a free performance by The Proposition last night at Memorial Hall, seeking to bolster the underdog campaign of Boston Mayor Kevin H. White for Governor and Michael S. Dukakis for Lieutenant Governor...
Trailing Vice President Agnew and his small army of security agents, John Stacks noted that in Phoenix ever-vigilant Secret Service men carefully ignored some reporters' vice-presidential credentials and locked them out of the hall. Local police tended to reject all credentials-"except," says Stacks, "a ticket to whatever $100-a-plate function was taking place...
...each according to his needs, said Karl Marx. Living in Yonkers, N.Y., supported mainly by his lecture fees, Gus Hall, general secretary of the American Communist Party, probably figured his needs included a little extra cash. He bought a New York State lottery ticket, and last week he found himself the winner of $500. Hall was not a bit sheepish about having indulged in such a capitalistic vice. To those who charged him with doctrinal impurity, he replied: "Marx said that the capitalist system creates its own grave diggers. Well, this is money for a few more shovels...
...elsewhere, rural blacks have flocked to the city; middle-class whites have increasingly moved to the suburbs. As a result, C.U.N.Y. and other urban universities confront rising pressure from poor youths, often members of minority groups, who yearn for the college degrees that they look upon as a ticket to U.S. affluence and status. "College is all kids talk about in high school these days," says Chris Vega, 18, a freshman at C.U.N.Y. "If you don't go to college, you just...
When Wills deigns to comment on Nixon, in the course of his pseudo-philosophical ramblings, his descriptions are revelatory. Nixon, we discover, does not consider himself an Eisenhower Republican. In fact, he distrusted Eisenhower, at times almost hated him. Eisenhower, in turn, tried to dump Nixon from the ticket in 1952, and ignored his Vice-President until well into his second term. Nixon's real ideological allegiance, if he has one at all, is not to the businessman's Republicanism of the 1950's, but to the Democratic liberalism of Woodrow Wilson. Wilson is his hero, the man he most...