Word: counts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Replied Anderson to the U.S.'s No. 1 apple-grower: "Harry, you really know how to grow good apples, but you sure don't know how to count votes...
...decades.The Administration-backed bill adopts a sliding-scale principle for determining how big a pension an elderly or partially disabled veteran may draw; the bigger his income from other sources, the smaller his pension. But, fearful of annoying veterans' organizations, the committee balked at an Administration proposal to count social security payments as income. The reforms apply only to future cases: no veteran now drawing a federal pension will get a cent less under the bill...
...carry 16 solid-fuel, nuclear-nosed Polaris missiles (range: 1,500 miles) in its "silos," be capable of cruising for months on its water-cooled nuclear reactors, launch its birds without. surfacing (TIME, March 3, 1958). Its mission: to provide a mobile undersea missile base that Russia can never count on knocking out in a sneak ICBM attack...
...benefit ball held under Justice Ministry auspices in Paris' Palais de Chaillot. Limiting his decorations solely to the Legion of Honor, Old Soldier de Gaulle smiled properly and offered affable greetings to Movie Luminaries Yul (The Sound and the Fury) Brynner, Sophia (The Black Orchid) Loren, Maurice (Count Your Blessings) Chevalier, William (The Bridge on the River Kwai) Holden, Cary (An Affair to Remember) Grant...
...with a more relaxed style, Woodhouse pressed Morrow so closely that in three races the judges overlooked him completely for second because in photo finishes the two Abilene jerseys appeared as one. With Morrow graduated this year, Woodhouse equaled the world mark, ran a 9.1 race that will not count because he had a favoring wind at his back. "I've improved every year," says Woodhouse. "I run smoother, where I used to run choppy...