Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve bushels of apples. They cost $10 each. You buy them, but before you do, you take a third of the apples out of each bushel. How much do you pay for the apples?" That one floored Heavyweight Cassius Clay, 23, and after he'd taken the count on two Army aptitude tests, the U.S. declared that the champion just wasn't bright enough to fight. Now Colonel Everette Stephenson, director of Selective Service in Kentucky, will "more than likely" summon Clay for another round of brain crushers. Meantime the champ won another kind of split decision...
...while at Walden in 1846 that Thoreau struck another blow for individual freedom, one that, in Harding's judgment, reverberates with more force than ever today. At the time, Thoreau's blow did not count for much. He went to jail for refusing to pay his poll tax-$1.50-his way of protesting against a Government that permitted slavery. But someone, possibly one of Thoreau's aunts, paid off the revenuers, and he was freed after one night behind bars...
...black sheep." In the U.S., if a painting clashes with the wallpaper, anybody can paint over it, "even a Cézanne." If the hearing wound up more voluble than valuable, Lipchitz contributed at least one astute observation on why his colleagues feel pushed around. "You have to count with the nature of the artist," said the sculptor. "We are all more or less schlemiels...
...trying to rebound from a spotty holiday performance in two tournaments. After a sparkling showing in a losing cause against Toronto. Harvard was dumped by Yale 3-2 in the Nichols Tournament. The Crimson dominated the game, but could not find the not often enough to make their pressure count...
...Gazette is scheduled to appear early this spring as a biweekly and eventually, if successful, as a daily. The Organizers have raised about $1000--mostly donations. They need about two thousand dollars more and count on advertising from non-university bookstores, liquor stores, and other enterprises that are not permitted to advertise in the B.U. News