Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hardly anyone accepted the count as final. At the order of Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey, an around-the-clock police guard was placed over voting machines. This week, with lawyers employed by Republican and Democratic organizations carefully watching the process, the New York vote was recanvassed...
When the vote count was barely under way, Batista gave the counters their cue. ''Seventy percent of the electorate voted, and 60% have voted for me," he told his followers. To no one's surprise, the final returns reported a 70% vote and a 6-1 margin for Batista. The opposition votes went to Grau, whose name remained on the ballots despite his walkout. Batista's four-party coalition bagged its constitutional limit of Senate seats (36 out of 54), all nine provincial governorships, and most other offices. Said Grau: "The future of Cuba is dark...
...amid the show's lavish hurly-burly and piling one thing on top of another. Jo Mielziner's sets count for less than his brilliant methods of shifting them. Tamiris has devised some colorful choreography, but it is often so unlooked-for and unneeded as to seem less like a dance than a kind of dividend. Fanny is built like Actor Slezak without being nearly so light on its feet...
...Calorie Count. In Los Angeles, 240-lb. Stanley Kaitz admitted committing ten burglaries,-but insisted that when he broke into the office of Dr. Phillip Koppel, he was merely looking for reducing pills...
...since Reconstruction days had Florida elected a G.O.P. Representative. William C. Cramer came close in 1952 in the Tampa-St. Petersburg district, lost out only on the count of absentee ballots-and never stopped running. This time he made it. Hillsborough County (Tampa) is normally Democratic and has a population of 249,000-of whom only 33,890 took the trouble to vote. Pinellas County (St. Petersburg) is Republican. Its population is 158,000-and 61,000 voted. Result: a 1,600-vote edge for Cramer...