Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Residents of the apartment where Mrs. Bean lived testified that a communications system would decrease the number of robberies and other crimes occurring in such buildings. They reported that since Mrs. Bean's murder five fires have occurred in the building, all of them set by arsonists, and several persons have been observed trying forcibly to enter apartment rooms...
...CRIMSON hailed "The Passing of John Barleycorn" in an editorial on the day the requisite number of states ratified Probihition...
...numb in number...
Their "meaningful confrontation number," though a little thin for the amount of advertising they got and the time they had to do it, is the best thing they've published in, like, two years. And their latest LP, "The Surprising Sheep and Other Mind Excursions," is a remarkable musical feat that's even been getting air play on Boston radio. All this in spite of the fact that the Lampoon had run upon hard times recently...
Hard times means that the Lampoon didn't make the killing they expected to on their Life parody last fall. As my paternal grandmother used to say about my father, "their eyes were bigger than their stomach." Just before the Life press run, they jacked up the number they would print from 400,000 to 650,000. They could only sell half of them, and the rest are rotting in warehouses from Sheboygan to El Paso. They lost $15,000 on the $200,000 deal. That's big business...