Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the Saw. New Jersey's Palisades Park has installed an outsized, 100-ft.-high Ferris wheel which jazzes up the ride with horizontally revolving seats. Nearby is The Monster-an "octopus" crossed with Lord-knows-what by some madman, and just the ticket to produce four-way stomach upset. Six Flags, near Dallas, has the Aserradero (Spanish for sawmill), with a water flume ride that puts four passengers into a hollow log, runs them under a circular saw, shoots them along a rapids, finally abandons them to the simple trauma of a steep downhill sluicing...
...European lines, and others on the North Atlantic run, may also be moved by Trippe's argument that a flat thrift-class rate would enable airlines to rid themselves of a variety of cut-rate plans that complicate ticket selling. Trippe would stamp out many of the scarcely profitable charter flights, on which 12% of all airborne U.S. tour ists will go to Europe this year for as low as $250 round trip. Pan Am's low fare would also eliminate the 25-person group flights ($310 round trip to London), as well as the 21-day excursion...
...other-though many potential passengers did not care to, or did not have the time to, make a round trip by boat. This has now changed, and an estimated 30% of all Atlantic sea passengers this year will be traveling on the split ticket...
...waive service charges to win customers, figuring that the money they made on service will be more than equalled by new business. To win the community's approval, scores of banks have set up free community rooms for Boy Scout and P.T.A. meetings. Some also act as ticket brokers for plays or ball games; the Bank of Indiana in Gary books plane and hotel reservations anywhere in the world for its customers, has outdoor "walkup windows" to serve them. New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. has started an offbeat radio and TV advertising campaign to attract more...
...Republicans can find a man of these qualities, Ike feels, President Kennedy can be defeated: "With the right ticket and a good campaign, we'll give them an exciting race. A Republican able to create confidence, a candidate able to carry our torch well, would have a fine chance of winning...