Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official count four days later gave the government's middle-of-the-road Party of Revolutionary Institutions a sweeping victory. It won all but one of the 147 seats at stake in the Chamber of Deputies. Not even the opposition parties expected much else. For most Mexicans, the election's greatest significance was the proof it offered that their country, after years of mixing blood with ballots, was finally reaching political maturity...
...Administration had to stave off one crippling amendment after another. Congressman Ed Rees, a Kansas lawyer-farmer, proposed to kill all mention of low-rent housing. His amendment almost got through. A standing vote on Rees's amendment went down by one vote and Rees demanded a teller count, taken by queuing up in two groups-yes or no-and marching past the counters. Rees won then by 168-165. But on a final roll-call vote, Administration forces were able to beat Rees by a bare 209-204 vote. All through these nervous moments, Speaker Sam Rayburn...
White-haired Judge Albert Reeves, 75, mounted the bench, and the crowded courtroom was hushed. "The defendant will rise," intoned the marshal. "What say you, ladies & gentlemen of the jury, as to count one [espionage]?" In a firm voice the foreman replied: "Guilty." And to count two [stealing government documents]? "Guilty." Judy sank back, chin in hands, no longer the "simple little girl in love" that Archie Palmer called her, but the convicted spy with "the agile little Swiss-watch mind," as the prosecution called her-a trusted employee who had used her job in the Department of Justice...
...Died. Count Jacques Edouard de Sieyes, 58, French diplomat (General de Gaulle's personal wartime representative in the U.S.) and business executive (Patou perfume); by drowning in the River Seine, Paris; reportedly by his own hand, because of financial worries...
Then energetic Conductor Norman Del Mar bounced into the tiny pit for some rehearsing. Explaining how to count time and watch his baton for cues, he put the audience through four songs, three to be sung in turn before the opera's three scenes and a finale to be bellowed out with the opera's cast (one-third professional, two-thirds schoolchildren). That done, intermission was announced; in their growing enthusiasm, most of the audience did not even realize that Let's Make an Opera!, otherwise known as The Little Sweep, was already half over...