Word: counts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Democrats fantastically bloated congressional majorities?333 to 89 in the House, 75 to 17 in the Senate?the G.O.P. rebounded and recaptured 80 seats in the House and six in the Senate. The 1964 Goldwater rout left the G.O.P. on the short end of a 295-to-140 count in the House and a 67-to-33 margin in the Senate. Dick Nixon overstated the case only slightly when he warned: "This is the year the Republican Party either goes up or goes...
...more than stimulating cafe topics. Bao Dai, the French-sponsored Emperor of Viet Nam for 20 years, has all but forgotten the old days before he went into exile in 1954. Cold-shouldered by De Gaulle (the government no longer subsidizes him), Bao Dai is the guest of a count in Lorraine, spends his time hunting or visiting his concubine in Paris. General Le Van Vien, ex-chief of the notorious Binh Xuyen sect and a former Saigon vice lord, lives in retirement in a mansion outside Paris...
Hilles Library has a seating capacity of 600. Over the past week, a count by the staff indicates that there have never been more than 341 people in the library -- even at the peak hour of 8:30 p.m. The average for that hour has been not quite 240, and is even less for other times during...
...library will continue to take a count of studiers, at several times during each day until November 11, Miss Porritt said. At that time, they will compare figures with Lamont's staff, who are conducting a parallel study to determine the feasibility of admitting women. Together, they will attempt to come to a common solution of the library problem...
...Hilles staff is also considering recent complaints about the open reserve system, Miss Porritt added. They cannot, however, make an actual count of the demand for books, because the books are never checked out during the day. But they have noticed that the Harvard undergraduates who study there at night use very few reserve books...