Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then, a column moved down the dusty road toward Katanga itself, 100 miles away. There, Tshombe's hastily mobilized Katanga army was deployed, in grim determination to resist with machine guns, mines and booby traps. Stretches of the single-track rail line leading into Katanga from Kasai were ripped up, and armed Katangans with dynamite rushed out to block the few dirt roads at the Kasai frontier. Most of Tshombe's force was a ragtag outfit, but Belgian officers at Kamina airbase were openly supplying him with spotter planes and tactical advice. At week...
...vote is as low as 6% of the total." In his own election canvass, said Lubell, he had found that no less than 18% of the electorate had yet to make up its mind about how to vote in November. And Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop devoted an entire column to criticizing Gallup's methods. "In the newspaper trade," wrote Alsop, "it is usually considered bad form for one wretched scribbler to make remarks in print about the work of another. Yet an exception seems to be justified in the case of the inquiring Dr. George Gallup's important...
...gist of Alsop's criticism was that Gallup had taken voters who were merely "leaning" toward one candidate or another and had placed them in the "decided" column. Wrote Alsop: "All this is not intended to suggest that Dr. Gallup has been cooking his poll. Yet the facts "have to be faced that this poll has become a fairly major extra-legal institution of American politics. For this reason, such things as unannounced transformations of 'leaners' into 'decideds' do not serve the public interest...
...reaction came from Alsop's readers, many of whom resented being lumped in religious and racial blocs. Wrote Philip L. Winter, chairman of the American Council for Judaism, to the New York Herald Tribune: "Joseph Alsop's column entitled 'The Jewish Vote' is dangerous, damaging . . . Mr. Alsop has magnified nine-repeat, nine-voter switchers from the Republican column in 1956 and 20 from the Republicans in 1958 into his conclusion that covers all of 'New York's Jewish voters...
...money to pay for a lawyer. Asked by his creditors' attorney whether he ever inspected his books, Williams replied politely, "No, sir." Requested to examine his balance sheet (which under "cash on hand" carried the terse entry: "None"), he fumbled through the papers, asked: "Which column do I read? I don't know debits, credits. I didn't know how to read them if I saw them. I don't know about these corporation matters...