Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group had started its own recording and production company, Apple Records, which was also meant to serve as a kind of Ford Foundation for the counterculture. The place attracted all sorts of daytrippers, rip-off artists and weirdos. "People were robbing us and living off us," Lennon comments. "Eighteen or 20 thousand pounds a week was rolling out of Apple and nobody was doing anything about...
...Eighteen million visitors are expected in Washington during the Bicentennial year, and vast numbers of them will come to the massive National Archives Building at Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues to view America's historic documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. TIME Correspondent Don Sider joined the already long lines of visitors and sent this report...
...eminently listenable album, Black and Blue is however uneven and often lazy; throughout there is a sense that the Stones lack real commitment to their music. Considering the near eighteen months this album took in the making, one would expect a musically tighter, more unified work. Traditionally, the Stones' special talent has been for infusing their material with a tremendous, yet controlled energy, but this quality more than anything else is missing from Black and Blue...
...score remained four-all until late in the game. Eighteen minutes into the second half, a Bruin goal was called back because the shot was taken inside the goalie's crease...
...stoppages in Hangchow, apparently over the issue of higher wages. Even the official press admitted that the 11,000 troops sent into the factories to put down the disturbances dealt "ruthlessly" with the troublemakers. There are also enduring resentments over the role and privileges of party officials in China. Eighteen months ago, a 100-yd. wall poster in Canton attacked the abuses of a system run by powerful party cadres. While it reaffirmed the validity of Marxism-Leninism for China, the wall poster also pilloried "a force of civil officials who share vested interests" and the "fascist autocracy" that...