Word: counting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steam to scrub the steps and walls leading to the entrance of the Mall-and even that failed to erase the graffiti that demonstrators had smeared on with ineradicable black plastic paint. Some of the protesters-who numbered 30,000 to 35,000 according to a Naval Air Intelligence count-left more personal souvenirs on the Mall. "You should see what we found out there," said one worker. "Nothing but bras and panties. You never saw so many." The only damage to the Pentagon was three broken windows-two shattered by rocks and one by a wine bottle (French, white...
...lavish spender in private life, Peggy Lee hoards her musical resources, parceling them out with a parsimony that makes every jot count. Her sound, never big or brassy, is growing thin at the top and breathy at the bottom. So she spends her notes in the same way that dispossessed nobility lives on a dwindling income: with frugal selectivity but stylish aplomb. As she puts on weight, it becomes a little easier-but only a little-to believe that she is 47 and a grandmother. So she tones her act down to a quieter hush, focuses her emotions...
...problem and the most controversial one remains what is to be done for the non-white subjects currently living in Britain. The issue now is open housing, and it is not certain whether the Labor Party can count on Conservative support to pass a bill which will undoubtedly stir up a hornets' nest of emotions. Unlike in this country, there is hope in Britain that the problem can be mastered. "We have great advantages (over America)," the Race Relations Board stated in their yearly report. "Our colored population has arrived here far more recently and patterns of behaviour both among...
...Cambridge City Council request for a special legislative act postponing the count on the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam's anti-war initiative petition until Nov. 28--hree weeks after election day--is now before the State legislature...
...City also outlined the procedure for the late count of ballots. If the special legislative act passes, the number of ballots--but not the results--would be counted on election day. The ballots would then be sealed and sent to a vault in the Harvard Trust Company. On November 28, the Election Commission would tally the ballots, along with any absentee ballots received by then...