Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RONALD ("The Gipper") REAGAN, r.f. rookie: Turned heads at spring camp when suggested that violators of game's rules should be "taken out and shot"; also recommends drastically raising ticket prices to get rid of bleacher "freeloaders"; won't listen to advice on how to play hitters claiming that such would be an encroachment upon local rights...
...result of Harvard's non-support for the orchestra is quite clear: competition is fostered in the place of cooperation. With ticket sales as the orchestra's major source of revenue, the HRO is forced into open competition with the Bach Society and other music groups on campus...
...fare, hotel room, ground transport, taxes and tips. And no longer does the traveler have to belong to a so-called affinity group, such as a club or union, to qualify for the reduced rates. The new package is often less than the price of a scheduled-airline ticket. For example, a one-week O.T.C. Hawaii vacation with "economy" accommodations, organized by Crimson Travel of Cambridge, Mass., costs as little as $379; by contrast, a round-trip economy ticket on a scheduled flight costs $528. A traveler from New York can spend eight days and seven nights in London...
...vote is all about McMurphy's demand to see the World Series. That's the ticket. What the patients need is good, ol' American team sports. McMurphy seems largely preoccupied with trying to organize basketball games--teaching a big, supposedly deaf and dumb seven foot Indian how to stuff, for example. During the day it's sports, at night it's poker. McMurphy's real problem is that he is a child who never grew up, who believes in the therapeutic power of good team sports. Perhaps this will strike a responsive chord in most audiences. McMurphy's other chief...
...skycaps at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, the world's busiest, got strict instructions not to check baggage through unless a passenger could produce a ticket...