Word: counting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest departments are putting a conservative construction on pass-fail. History has not yet decided, but both the Government and English Departments will not allow any pass-fail courses to count for concentration. Fine Arts, Folklore and Mythology, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Slavic have made the same decision...
...turned aside Michigan Governor George Romney's "friendly" challenge to debate because "the only winner of a debate between Republicans would be Lyndon Johnson." He expressed his "great respect" for Nelson Rockefeller, but refused to count him as a rival now because "your opponent is the man in the arena with you, not the man in the grandstand rooting for the man who's in the arena." Although the early opinion polls have made Nixon the heavy favorite over Romney in New Hampshire, he declared that defeat in the Granite State "will not be fatal to either candidate...
...with any chance of defeating Lyndon Johnson next November. Though he trails Nixon in the latest Gallup poll among Republicans, 55% to 41%, he has picked up ten points in only two months. Among G.O.P. Senators and Representatives, Rocky is rated the strongest Republican possibility, leading Nixon by a count of 53.1% to 37.7% in a Congressional Quarterly Survey. In California, Don Muchmore's State Poll shows him beating Johnson by 54% to 37%, while Nixon would lose to the President...
...Force recovery team continued their hunt for H-bomb parts and contaminated debris scattered by the crash of a B-52 SAC bomber last month. Searchers armed with scintillation counters came upon chunks of wreckage that caused their instruments to go off scale at their maximum 2 million counts-per-minute rate-indicating a level that was above the highest count recorded at the Palomares, Spain, crash site in 1966. To minimize the threat that the radiation poses to plant and animal life, the recovery operation will continue until as much as possible of the 200 Ibs. of fissionable trigger...
...deserving heirs to the Beatles' shaggy mantle. Last week the five tousled youngsters swept in and out of Anaheim, Calif., for their first American appearances, taped a couple of guest shots on the Smothers Brothers and Laugh-In TV shows, and relaxed in a Beverly Hills hotel to count their money and think clean...