Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a seemingly bottomless campaign treasury-estimated as high as $2,000,000-Shapp saturated the air waves with more than 7,000 radio spots, 34 half-hour TV shows in prime time, and so many TV shorts that aides lost count. Mailboxes were filled with provocative, well-prepared pamphlets setting out Shapp's views on expanding the state's economy and improving education: "I've been accused of buying the election," the candidate acknowledged at one point. "I'm not buying. I'm selling myself. It does cost money...
...initiated incidents during the same period fell to a low of 798, a sign that the Communists were off balance and lying low. As a result, the kill count has dipped to a six-month low of 832 Reds a week...
...church crisis deepened, Spain's eager young priests could count on a valuable new ally: Monsignor Marcelo González Martín, 48, who was installed last week as coadjutor, chief troubleshooter and heir apparent of Barcelona's archbishop. Though Monsignor González is non-Catalán in a rabidly Catalán diocese, he very quickly won over his first congregation at Barcelona's Gothic Santa Eulalia Cathedral, shunning the tiresome platitudes that his audience was so accustomed to. "I promise you," Monsignor González said with feeling and warmth, "that...
There was a time when men could count on certain apparently eternal verities. The Yankees would win the pennant, Notre Dame would go undefeated in football, and Virginia politics would march to the tune of U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
Still, Detroiters hunched and hoped that they could defy the statistical omens, if only they could count on the continuation of consumer confidence-the supreme factor in auto sales. Not only has that confidence been worn thin by all the jabberwocky about inflation and taxes, but since January the industry has been hit with everything but a ten-ton truck. To battle inflation, Lyndon Johnson has told consumers that it is patriotic to be parsimonious, and a lot of people are willing to heed him. When inflation winds blow, U.S. consumers do not go on a buying spree but instead...