Word: quilts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing the Numbers. As the campaign nears its end, politicians and pundits can only be fascinated by the crazy quilt of Michigan's voting patterns. They estimate the state at 35%-40% Democratic, 25%-30% Republican-leaving at least 30% as independent. So far, the independents seem to favor Romney. In all, labor (about 2,500,000 persons, including families, with some 1,000.000 votes) is 70% Democratic. The Negro bloc (700,000 persons) is expected to give its vote to Swainson, 9 to 1. The Polish bloc (400,000) ordinarily produces a heavily Democratic vote, but there...
...everything from making mosaics to hearing lunchtime chamber music by the Minneapolis Symphony. Bowlers at Ohio State's union play 200,000 games a year; its cafeterias serve 800,000 meals. The University of California's six-level center at Berkeley is a $6.7 million crazy quilt that wags call "Jack Tar East" after a garish San Francisco hotel; it will soon become a four-building center housing 150 student clubs, a 2,000-seat auditorium, a hushed "meditation room" and a raucous snack bar inevitably called "Bear's Lair." New York University's ten-story...
...Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn. "A robbery, eh? Anything stolen?" To this slyly astute question, posed by the dryly astute Superintendent Quilt (Peter Sellers) of Scotland Yard, the answer is wryly affirmative and highly sinister. It seems that an international ring of Mukkinese battle-horn smugglers has heisted a Mukkinese battle horn from a museum in London. Description of stolen article: about 20 feet of antique copper plumbing, positively pimpled with rubies and emeralds. Looks like an anaconda necking with a nose cone, sounds like a hippo with gastritis, contains a slot for used razor blades...
...Calling Car 5 K. Turn right into Oxford Street." Crash! A few frames later a man's suit is found without a man in it. After exhaustive analysis, the lab releases its report: "This suit needs cleaning." Suddenly a stone comes flying through the window and lands on Quilt's desk. "Aha!" cries the master sleuth. "Whoever threw that is just a stone's throw from here...
Just a stone's throw from there, Quilt taps at the wicket of Maxie's Club...