Word: ticketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Giants' own cast of characters is as varied as Author Asinof's fans; the list reads like a city ward-heeler's notion of the perfect political ticket. The coach is a Brooklyn Jew. The quarterback is a WASP-a Pentecostal minister's son from the Deep South. And the star pass receiver is a Negro. But whatever their differences, the Giants have one thing in common: an unpredictable flair for the dramatic...
...inside the voting booth. Without asking whether any voter wanted help, the election judge entered the booth with every voter and instructed him to pull the Democratic straight-party lever, breaking the state law. If the voter tarried more than 30 seconds and thus appeared to be splitting his ticket, the judge would reach inside to tap him on the shoulder or even re-enter the booth...
...average student wouldn't realize it is wrong to sell tickets at these prices," Watson said. Varsity and freshmen football coaches contacted their players yesterday to warn them against the sales, he said. A ticket-sale scandal in the 1930's cost several football players their eligibility at Harvard, he added...
...official in charge of Broadway show and other tickets at the Harvard Club of New York said yesterday that he had received many calls from Harvard and Yale students asking from $25 to $150 per ticket, but few sales were made. "The alumni are rather disgusted about the whole thing. Some of them ordered tickets in August and haven't been refunded their checks," he said. Hundreds of alumni will watch the game over closed-circuit TV in the New York Harvard Club. The official speculated that the tickets being offered in New York came from the team, since they...
...complicated. The trooper watching the sppeeding radar on the Conn Pike hears the beginning of "Honey" by Bobby Golsboro on the radio, which distracts him from someone doing 85 in the passing lane. You're doing 73 in the middle lane; but you're next. When you get a ticket, you shrink your ego: to minimize the penalty you go humble and let the cop score his subconscious anthropological victory by asserting himself over you. On an emotional level, you feel tiny. This is the night someone telephones to ask you to be editor of the Saturday Review. Because...