Word: counting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, Sarah Vaughan and Count Basic add their talents to the New Orleans Jazz Festival...
Unventuresome Swedes spend their vacations at the seashore with wives and children. Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen, on the other hand, has left the family home this year and with four other men has gone off to Biafra on a big-game hunt of sorts. The weapon they chose is an odd one: a Swedish single-engine aircraft known as the MFI-9B trainer, equipped to hold twelve rockets in pods under its wing. The bag claimed so far has been equally unusual: it includes four MIGs, one Ilyushin 28, two Canberras, a Heron and a control tower, all belonging...
...Biafran units were moving slowly southward from Owerri toward the oilfields around Port Harcourt. The Biafran strategy is not so much to regain lost territory as to prolong the standoff and inflict federal casualties until the Nigerians agree to peace talks and grant them independence. Toward such a goal, Count von Rosen's air force, however Lilliputian, is a significant help. As soon as his squadron has effectively disabled Nigerian airpower on the ground, Von Rosen intends to use his planes in close-up tactical air support of the Biafran troops...
Half Don't. By Hoppe's count, the nation is now waging 174 wars, including those against "pollution, smog, hunger, smut, poverty, the Vietnamese and middle-aged sag" - and is developing a defeatist attitude because it is losing them all. He claims that "the doves" have even taken over the war on poverty and this means that "Mr. Nixon has clearly given up any hope of winning...
...much better. Gilligan did not think that televised distortion of the news was more frequent or more harmful than selective exclusion of news by newspapers. Editors, he said, usually have no qualms about blacking out certain events or stories that offend their biases. He challenged his audience to count up the columns of straight political news in a metropolitan daily. "There's very little hard information about politics. . . . It's really impossible to get news on, say, a bill in Congress...