Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another half dozen votes from Colorado, Nevada and Washington brought his total close to 150. The count was far short of the 687 votes that will nominate a Democratic candidate. But in one week Campaigner Harriman had made remarkable progress...
Unclad applicants were soon stepping up-and-down on a high bench to the authorities' rapid count. Both the method, and especially the results, were considered confidential information...
...also ran the anchor leg of the mile relay in a losing cause. During the past season, he was timed at 0:47.9, one-tenth of a second faster than the University quarter-mile record, but because he did not win the race, the record did not count. It is expected that he will break the University record of 0:48.0 some time next year...
With control of the U.S. Senate (present count: 48 Democrats, 47 Republicans, one vacancy) hinging on the outcome, both parties have applied steam-boiler pressure in recent months to push known vote getters into the most critical of this year's 32 senatorial contests. Last week the pressure from the Democratic boiler pushed Nevada's easygoing, cherubic Alan Bible, 46, elected in 1954 to fill the unexpired term of the late Pat McCarran, into a contest for which he had little taste: another Nevada Democratic primary campaign...
...Night at the Apollo (Vanguard). Harlem's famed vaudeville theater in a rowdy session with Count Basic's band, a couple of tap dancers, some comedy and a glimpse of the famed amateur show that gave Ella Fitzgerald her start. The recorded show uncovers its own discovery, a bouncy blues singer named Doreen Vaughan. The audience goes wild...