61.  As Archie and the Dingbat liked to sing, those were the days.

62.  Currently, theaters in big cities tend to get the first prints available of popular movies and cinemas in smaller towns must wait days or even weeks.

63.  DeMarco said Mantle was visited in recent days by former teammate Bobby Richardson, who once headed the Baseball Chapel that conducts religious services before games.

64.  Custen wisely devotes a good deal of space to the largely ignored early days of the struggling young writer.

65.  Design-wise, anything goes these days, and the diversity of expression found in aluminum objects is one of the reasons the metal excites us."

66.  Desmond remembers his early days in journalism, working for $15,000 a year in 1983 as a reporter at a small daily in suburban Boston.

67.  Desperate parents were calling up the agency a few days before the show and offering $500 a ticket.

68.  Despite a Quaker upbringing, Strawbridge enlisted in the Navy days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

69.  Democrat Bill Bradley (www.billbradley. com) includes a long biography with pictures of his basketball days with the U.S. Olympic team and the New York Knicks.

70.  Democratic leaders these days are far more likely to perk up at the mention of the D'Amato's name than they are at Pataki's.