Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranging from county sheriff to township assessor, more than 6,800 state legislative posts, 35 governorships, 35 U.S. Senate seats and all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. According to the polls, many Americans-up to 30% in certain races-have lodged themselves squarely in the "undecided" column, which could reflect a simmering, silent dissatisfaction within the electorate or merely a reluctance to size up the issues and candidates...
...party strategists speak warily of voter apathy, a record off-year turnout of 56 million-30 million Democrats, 26 million Republicans-is expected. The election stands in marked contrast with 1964, when the Goldwater candidacy distorted traditional voting patterns and moved 4,000,000 G.O.P. voters into the Democratic column. The impact of the Kennedy assassination, important in the 1964 vote, will have little or no effect this time around...
...letters column of a newspaper presents its readers with a public forum in which to judge the quality of its journalism-if they choose to write and if the paper chooses to publish their letters. Last week, with a remarkable display of willingness to let its critics speak, the New York Times printed a column-long letter containing one of the sharpest attacks to date of its coverage of the war in Viet Nam. The writer: Frederick E. Nolting Jr., 55, a U.S. diplomat for 17 years, former U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam, and now a Paris-based vice...
...pastel-colored samples of his diluted serum being pumped through a dozen spaghetti-thin plastic tubes. Lights began to flash on and off, and a mechanical pen started to trace a red line on a chart. The doctor noted with equanimity that the thin red line passing through the columns of the chart was reporting normal amounts of calcium, albumin and cholesterol in his blood. Then the pen came to the last column, cryptically marked S.G.O.T. (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase-an index of liver function). As the red line jumped to the top of the chart, above the 250 mark...
...they get the response they hope for from their classified ads in the CRIMSON and the "personal" column of the New York Times, the group will have hundreds of such reports. They will divide the incidents according to what they tell about the "character of everyday social contacts," Milgram explained yesterday. The project will deal with both such specific things about the cities as pacing (how fast people walk there), and such general topics as alleged French hostility to tourists...