Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they might be right. The next reports confirmed it. All across Britain, party workers at Labor clubhouses swilled beer and danced with joy as one red pin after another replaced blue ones on election maps, indicating that yet another Tory constituency had fallen to Wilson. At the final count, Labor won 363 seats v. the Tories' 253. The Liberals picked up two seats for a total of twelve. It was Labor's best showing -and the Tories' worst-since 1945, and it gave Wilson an absolute majority of 97 seats in the House. Cried he: "This...
More Than One-Fifth. The growing pressure of U.S. units all over Viet Nam is taking a heavy toll. President Johnson pointed out last week that by actual body count, 10,000 of the enemy have been killed since the first of the year, and perhaps another 40,000 put out of action through wounds, capture or defection. Thus some 50,000 men, more than a fifth of the Communists' estimated forces in South Viet Nam, have been removed from the line within three months-a rate of loss that could well break the back of organized military resistance...
...Supreme Court seems to be catching up with the moral election returns. In three major decisions last week, it joined the growing body of Americans revolted by the growing body of U.S. pornography - the books, films, plays and magazines hawked on count less street corners with lurid sales pitches promising all manner of sex, all imaginable deviations, combinations and permutations. Ruling on three cases involving no fewer than 144 publications, the court handed down some bad news for U.S. smut peddlers...
...most commanding figure in all of pro sport, Wilton Norman Chamberlain, 29, just naturally has been discussed by physiologists, analyzed by psychologists, investigated by the Internal Revenue Service, and interviewed by newsmen, by his count, "more than 5,000" times. The body of literature devoted to his life and exploits runs to perhaps 2,000,000 words of prose and 200 of poetry, chock-full of such fascinating revelations as that he sleeps naked, trims his beard with fingernail scissors, has an IQ of 127 and hates the nickname "Wilt the Stilt." No one has seemed able to agree...
Unemployment in the U.S., at latest count, stands at 3.7% of the labor force, lowest since the Korean War. Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, recently called the developing labor shortage the U.S.'s single most serious inflationary threat. That the shortage is already critical in many areas has now become abundantly evident across the nation...