Word: 000th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oddball nominations, including recent proposals for the commemoration of mothers-in-law, the ten most wanted men, the Texas longhorn, the pretzel industry, the hamburger, the 100th anniversary of the first daylight bank robbery in the U.S. (a heist on Feb. 13, 1866, in Liberty, Mo.), and the 4,000th anniversary of the pickle...
With only two planes (Lockheed turboprop Electras), about 160 employees and the San Francisco-Orange County route that nobody wanted, Air California has snared an impressive and rapidly growing volume of business. By last week, when it flew its 80,000th passenger, the five-month-old airline had taken in $1,000,000 in revenue, revved up its schedule from five to a minimum of seven flights a day each way, and ordered two more Electras to expand service. Explained Air California President J. Kenneth Hull: "We're in competition with the freeways...
...involved even deigned to take notice when Agatha Christie's comedy-thriller, The Mousetrap, passed its 6,000th London performance last week (v. a measly 2,238 for former British record holder Chu Chin Chow). Since opening night in 1952, more than 2,000,000 people have bought tickets to the tiny (435 seats) Ambassadors' Theatre, and 97 actors have peopled the play's eight roles. "Just about everybody in England has seen it except the Queen," says Producer Peter Saunders, "and she thinks she's seen it." Author Christie, 76, has given no interview...
...brushes to make the contacts necessary to send electrical impulses to the computers Counting attendance. At one point, officials had to send people down to "eyeball" the entrants. Because of the tangle in counting arrivals, Air Canada had to cancel its plan to reward Expo's 1,000,000th visitor with a trip anywhere in the world, decided to wait until the computer-totalizer was working well enough to pick out a 2,000,000th person...
...petty hoodlum and narcotics peddler who helped Illinois authorities trap a big-time dope pusher. Last week, his frozen body, containing six bullets, was found in the snow at the edge of a forest preserve outside Chicago. He thereby achieved a dubious fame: his murder marked the 1,000th gangster killing since the Chicago Crime Commission began keeping count in 1919. Only 13 have ended in convictions...