Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week a laid-back San Francisco bandit robbed from one teller, then moved on to the new accounts desk, where he was arrested after trying to open a savings account. In Savannah, Ga., a robber was soon caught because the note he passed contained his name and Social Security number...
That seemed to be a clear call for a crackdown on the opposition, and the government took the cue. It immediately closed down 44 papers and magazines, and expelled five more Western correspondents (bringing to eleven the number deported thus far). In a particularly provocative move, it evicted a leftist Islamic group, the people's Mujahedin, from its headquarters in the former offices of the Shah's Pahlavi Foundation. Mujahedin leaders claimed Khomeini himself had assured them that they could keep their headquarters if they engaged only in normal political activity, but the authorities in Tehran...
...landscape photographs, organized by the Museum of Modern Art's director of the department of photography, John Szarkowski, and opening at MOMA next week. In workshop sessions over the years, Adams has personally taught at least 4,500 students. Original prints of his photos may number as high as 30,000. The most sought-after of these images, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941), exists in an edition of about 900, and the going price for each...
...Donald Underwood, an osteopath, is said by the New York State attorney general to have earned $1 million from his now shuttered Long Island clinics. Some operators are switching to a new ploy: offering to implant human hair fibers. But dermatologists warn that fibers collected from a number of people can provoke even more serious problems...
...entertaining at theaters (now that even many off-Broadway tickets are up to $13.50 or more) and eating out. Recoiling at restaurant bills that can easily reach or exceed $25 for just one at lunch, more office workers are brown-bagging their midday meal or seeking out a growing number of health-oriented restaurants that ignore or play down booze and beef. The price of a single martini has risen in some Manhattan restaurants to more than $3, an extortionate sum that is only slightly below the wholesale cost to an establishment of an entire fifth of vodka...