Throughout the mid-sixties both bands enjoyed huge success, but their careers were short-lived.

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Does anyone but me remember Digital Equipment going public in the mid-sixties?

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And yet, in many ways Corning is a much better company than it was in the mid-Sixties when it was held in such awe by Wall Street.

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His author photograph, identical on twenty years of jackets and press clippings until it stopped circulating at all, arrested him somewhere in the mid-sixties, turtlenecked, holding a cocktail glass forever.

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There was a young woman with multiple organ failure from a devastating case of pneumonia, a man in his mid-sixties with a ruptured colon that had caused a rampaging infection and a heart attack.

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But given the changing economic times it is not all that different than what happened in the mid-sixties when an attempt was made to ride the coattails of the 1966 World Cup and to sell professional soccer in North America.

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"When I was a student at UEA, back in the mid-sixties, I was taught by Angus Wilson and Malcolm Bradbury, and this helped to change the direction of my life, setting me on the path towards becoming a writer, " she said.

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In the mid-sixties, when the BBC was still monopolizing radio in Great Britain, a rogue operator, broadcasting from a ship anchored in the North Sea, plays rock to a country that could only hear the Beatles and the Stones live or by going to a record store.

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He had done his calculus work in the mid-sixteen-sixties, but never published it.

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