It would have been funnier if...

[DavidC]

When Mason wrote:

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Today that ratio is 70-to-1, and that's not a misprint.

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He instead wrote:

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Today that ratio is 700-to-1, and that's not a misprint.

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... and then he had to make a correction in the November issue.

--Dave.