Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fiat? The hardest information to get is on the party's cadre organization, and only a minimum of biographical material is available on the leadership. The U.S. would like more information on agriculture and more reliable figures on the economy. It is particularly wary about a precise population count; the experts estimate the present population at 750 million, but concede that it could be as low as 650 million or as high as 800 million...
...first group of U.S. volunteer doctors arrived last September; the current head count is 29, scattered up and down the country working alongside similar teams from Korea, Switzerland, the Philippines, Iran, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia. The U.S. program limits itself to volunteer physicians under 55. They get free transportation and a $10 per-diem for incidentals. Balanced against this is time lost from practice that amounts to a sacrifice of thousands of dollars...
...inches to go at Worcester-and they stayed in front most of the way. There were five other college crews in the race, and all of them had a shot at the Harvard eight, which began rowing at a steady beat of 39 strokes a minute, abruptly upped the count to 41, and opened up a 12-ft. lead at the 500-meter mark. For the rest of the race, the Crimson cox spent his time mostly looking over his shoulder. Harvard's final margin of victory was 70 ft. over Brown, followed by Cornell, Yale and Princeton...
After that, it was merely a question of mopping up. As the fleeing Communists were pinned down at every turn by helicopter-hopping Air Cav and South Vietnamese troops, the count mounted to 446 dead, 389 captured...
...speech last week. For his part, Nasser is launching what he calls his "long-breath strategy." He is paring his army from 70,000 men to 40,000, withdrawing from exposed positions in eastern and northern Yemen, and tightening his hold on the parts of Yemen that really count: the Red Sea coastline; a northern boundary that takes in the well-fortified town of Hajja and the capital, Sana; and the border with the South Arabian Federation, which becomes independent in 1968 and offers a tempting target for further Nasser expansion toward Aden...