Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work more than half a day, and nearly half their children are illegitimate. At Victoria, the ramshackle capital on the island of Mahe, the town clock, a silver-painted model of Big Ben in the main square, strikes the hour twice for the benefit of those who forget to count the first time. Until recently, the Seychelles' liveliest political issue was whether it would rain on the Legislative Council election...
...making progress. Through his own newspaper, The People, occasional manifestoes ("To We Who Have Not Yet Broken the Colonial Chains That Fetter Us"), and stumping tours of the islands, he has built SPUP up into what for the Seychelles is a powerful political force. At last count, 1,961 islanders-more than the total vote during the last election-were paying 10?-a-month membership dues...
There will be other places that will try, as Amite School Board Chairman Colville Jackson puts it, to "just do nothin'." But integration is moving at a stepped-up pace. Late this month, Commissioner Keppel expects to have a head count on just how many Negroes are in previously all-white Southern classrooms this year. He optimistically predicts that the number will be ten times that of last year-in all, perhaps as much as a fourth of the South's Negro schoolchildren...
...fair circuit also imposes its conditions. Even between shows, the headliner is always on. He can count on being greeted by the mayor, booked to attend a P.T.A. lunch, scheduled to address the Lions' Club. The most conscientious, like Ernie Ford, spend off-hours playing the local children's hospital, old folks' home, and perhaps the jail. There are command performances at shopping centers and interviews with every 1-kw. disk jockey in the county. And the stars' best chance to relax-the private parties local functionaries are always thrusting upon them-are off limits...
...battles to the threat of government bombardment or V.C. reprisal, new waves of refugees are liable to turn up in any province at any time. Indeed, so confused is the situation that the USOM last week dispatched three teams of American specialists on a tour of the camps to count noses...