Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until after the test. Some subjects agreed to take hot showers, then stand around in a cold corridor without drying themselves. Others went out in the rain, got drenched, and then sat around in a cold room. Volunteers had to use paper tissues instead of handkerchiefs, and keep count of each tissue. Some of Sir Christopher's findings: > Determining whether a person even has a cold is no easy matter. Some people naturally have runnier noses than others. (Fever or severe sore throat would indicate another respiratory infection-not a common cold.) As good an index as any proved...
Harvard will be doing well to split the first two matches and must count on winning at least two of the next three. Bill Morris, usually number three, has dropped to five because of illness. Al Terrell and Dinny Adams, each moving up a slot, will have to carry additional pressure. Neither has lost a game this year...
...votes. In 1960, for example, John Kennedy won in both Alabama and Mississippi, but 14 electors from those states ignored the will of the voters and cast their electoral votes for Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd. Under Johnson's proposal, each state's electoral votes would count only for the candidate who carries the state. Under the present system, moreover, the Electoral College can choose anybody-not necessarily the Vice President-elect-to be President if the President-elect dies before inauguration. By wiping out the Electoral College, the Johnson proposal would stipulate that the Vice President...
...Count to a Million. As graves are weeded and headstones set straight under the fond patriarchal eye of Grandfather Sam Ordway, the dead begin to seem nearly as quick as the living, and reminiscences have the soft, nostalgic sheen of loved stories often told. Author Humphrey deftly weaves them into a leisurely ramble through Southern history and Texas geography, with stops along the way for circuses and barbecues, political rallies and small-town jails, courting scenes and courtroom dramas, jokes, pranks and tall tales...
Giles Ordway, who was preoccupied all his life with trying to count to a million: "Just how far he did get no one ever knew. For though he was vouchsafed twelve years more than his allotted three score and ten, and did hardly anything else towards the last, his dying words were, Tell them that fellow was right. It can't be done. I only got up to-' And there Uncle Giles stopped counting." There is a deadpan investigation into the real origin of those statues of Confederate foot soldiers that decorate the central squares of all Southern...