Word: digits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Executive Editor Thomas C. Harris, 51, has learned that the green benches lining Central Avenue are crowded with retired authorities from every imaginable-field, all vigilant to catch the Times in error. Running a filler item on annual steel production in the U.S., the Times misquoted a single digit; five readers called in triumphantly with the correction. When an ad erroneously quoted a can of tuna at 7? instead of 17?, penny-watching pensioners bought 6,960 cans in six hours; the store billed the Times $696 for the mistake...
...early Max Shulman novels in a single volume, the editors boasted: "Although these three books were written by Shulman at the age of eight, critics have pointed out that they show the insight and penetration of a man of nine." Now Humorist Shulman, 40, has advanced into the double-digit years. But his characters still uniformly resemble the Spock troops...
...University must economize wherever it soundly can if it is ever to keep costs under control. But to reduce sports to club status just to save what is really a mere pittance is false economy. By degrading lacrosse the University saved $5,000. Was this sum, almost an undistinguishable digit in the multi-figured budget of the University, worth all the furor and ill-feeling that resulted? This $5,000, twice the $5,000, and I wager seven times this $5,000 could be saved if some efficient person delved into the general workings of buildings and grounds--the department...
...Vegas, a reporter, waiting for the word, had already dialed all but the last digit of the Hidden Well telephone number. Now he completed the call. "Liz is flipping," Eddie announced when he heard the news. "She's jumping all over the room." Said Liz: "I knew it all along. Just chalk it up to woman's psychology or intuition." Now, continued Liz, she would quit pictures (after making three more, that is). The marriage would take place on May 11, after Eddie gets a Nevada divorce, and Liz would like the ceremony to be performed by Rabbi...
...electronic innards of the Census Bureau's Univac computer whirred last week, and out popped an anxiously awaited seven-digit number: the U.S. Government's official mid-March unemployment total. In advance of the announcement this week, the precise figure was guarded like a missile blueprint. But word seeped out that the total showed no significant change from the mid-February level of 5,173,000. The hoped-for seasonal improvement was missing, but at least partly to blame for this disappointment was March's wintry weather, which delayed the spring thaw in farming and construction. Pointing...