Word: vip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparent. My cousin's ticket came from her father's friend, a businessman who once pitched minor league ball and now throws batting practice for the Red Sox before gametime. Almost everyone at the first game of the Series had some similar story of at least vague ties to VIP's. A friend of mine got his ticket from a friend of his who had an acquaintance in the Fly Club, to which several tickets had been donated by an Fly alumnus who had once owned part of the Milwaukee Braves. And, I might as well confess, my ticket...
...VIP suite, and said that they probably would be flown home early this week...
...Chicago office that has neither furnishings nor secretary. Since taking up his duties in Chicago last May, Lownes claims, he has cut $2.8 million out of the home office's $8 million budget for operating the clubs and hotels. Among his moves: he has decided to discontinue VIP, a magazine for key holders, at an estimated saving of $800,000 a year, and he has cut in half the home-office club and hotel staff by firing 50 people, including the entire "Bunny department," which once kept files and tabs on every Playboy Bunny in America...
...adoption agencies that participated insisted that they had acted properly. Said Bob Chamness, director of Holt Children's Services in Saigon: "I know for a fact that no VIP children were on any of our flights." In the U.S., Pat Dempsey of Friends of All Children, which brought over a large proportion of the young refugees, said that all tots handled by her agency were either truly orphaned or had been deliberately -and irrevocably-handed over for adoption by their parents. Dempsey acknowledged that some children might have arrived in the U.S. minus their requisite papers, since many documents...
...very hot, in the high 80 s, and a 20-m.p.h. wind blew gritty white dust into everyone's face. At the big moment, the VIP gates were thrown open and the crowd surged forward for a better view, nearly sweeping some onlookers over the canyon's rim. One 15-year-old who was pushed 100 ft. to the edge fell into a 5-ft.-deep crevice in rocks hanging over the chasm. Then, as Knievel's rocket disappeared below the canyon lip, hundreds of spectators began dashing for their cars or bikes, apparently caring more about...