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Last year the Kness Manufacturing Co. sold 400,000 traps and grossed about $1.5 million at a wholesale average of $3.75 a trap. It was the twelfth straight year that production has increased. While there are not enough zeroes in these figures to dazzle anyone on Wall Street, they are remarkable in Albia. All the more so because the Knesses, defying the collective wisdom of American commerce, neither advertise nor employ salesmen to bring the trap to their customers...
...sophomore year we finished thirteenth and Adams House finished twelfth with twice as many points as us," Leon said, adding, "This is the first year we've actually been competing with a full house...
...Crimson's unexpected depth to a large extent provided the margin of victory. The meet awarded points for the top 12 places, so several Harvard eighth through twelfth place finishers provided needed and welcome points which would not have been awarded in a regular dual meet...
Constitutionally protected grossness-edible underwear, the vibrators in the drugstore window, massage parlors, sex merchandised in its pervasive richness-has spread the pornographic spirit widely. The Twelfth Night Masque, the oldest private subscription ball in Chicago and hitherto a bastion of Midwestern decorum, has suffered a recent rash of crudity. Last year some guests showed up at the ball dressed as hemorrhoids when President Carter was so afflicted; two years before, when the masque theme was "The Father of Our Country," a number of Lake Shore socialites appeared as penises or sperm. No one proposes calling out a SWAT team...
...I.C.A. the results of this deliberation are striking. The two-dimensional floor pieces upstairs succeed in breaking down the separation of art vs. walls-and-floors conspicuous in museum displays. Here the geometric patterns of metal plates meld with the room. Particularly dramatic is "Twelfth Copper Corner," a triangle of 78 copper plates extending from the corner opposite the staircase...