Word: tickets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preference for a low-priced ticket over the big name band will set the ticket price at $4.50, a sharp decrease from last year's $6.00 figure. The ticket will include athletic events Saturday afternoon and a formal dance, "The Straw Hat Ball," in the evening...
Reinhold had $10.20. He spent $5 for a bus ticket and rode to Chicago. To conserve his money, he spent the first night under a bush in Grant Park. But he decided to live as openly as possible and simply ignore the threat of recapture. He asked a policeman for directions. The cop replied politely. Reinhold invented a new name, Phillip Brick, applied for a Social Security card, and got it with no trouble at all. He went to work as a dishwasher, then as a bookstore clerk...
Possible Coalition. Yoshida boasts that his party will win a greater majority in the new elections than they got in October. But with Hatoyama and his dissident Liberals running on a splinter ticket, Yoshida may get beaten. The opposition is scattered, but might unite in a coalition headed by Hatoyama or by one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, the Progressive Party leader, who, as Foreign Minister, signed Japan's surrender aboard the Missouri, and was convicted as a war criminal...
...Harvard Liberal Union meanwhile announced they will give each blood contributor a free ticket to a May showing of Harold Lloyd's "The Freshman." After three days of campaigning, the blood drive has netted 2,761 pledges, contrasted to 2,535 pledges at same time last fall, when the previous pledging record was set. Lowell and Leverett are now leading the Houses; over 60 percent of each House is pledged to contribute
...cast, Magsaysay spoke plainly: "The government is full of crooks and grafters ... I resigned not as a millionaire but as a poor man." Although he still wore the label of the Liberal Party, his resignation made him a leading candidate to oppose Liberal Quirino on the ticket of the opposition Nacionalista Party. Leader Jose Laurel, a mortal political enemy of Elpidio Quirino, has already renounced his own ambitions for the nomination, if Magsaysay would run, and renewed his pledge last week: "I launched the candidacy of Ramon Magsaysay," said he, "and personally am committed to support his candidacy...