Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concluded Scranton: "Barry's chances in the cities are just unbelievably poor. Yesterday, for instance, we completed our latest check in Philadelphia. Barry Goldwater can count on only 11% of the total vote against Lyndon Johnson...
Very tenderly, Elizabeth read, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways," by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Philip Sidney's beautiful sonnet which begins: My truelove hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given...
Dirksen could count on only twelve to 14 Republicans. The total fell far short of the two-thirds vote that would be needed to shut off a filibuster. Slowly, carefully, patiently, Dirksen went to work on even more amendments, all calculated to bring more Republicans into the cloture fold...
...Saigon, Premier General Nguyen Khanh addressed 70 leaders of South Viet Nam's multitudinous, microscopic political parties (31 at last count), pleaded with them to close ranks behind his government. Of continuing concern were relations between the country's wary Buddhists and Catholics. Last week 25,000 Catholics staged a unity march in Saigon, which was orderly except for a militant minority that carried banners urging U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to GO HOME. Many Catholics believe thai odge was instrumental in the U.S. decision to curtail aid to Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem prior to Diem...
...game" system of covering elections, in which networks vied with each other to see who could hire the most poll watchers, reached an apogee of absurdity in the California primary. In small precincts, three "reporters" often found themselves struggling to see over the shoulder of one kind old lady counting votes. It was too silly and needlessly expensive. Last week the three networks and the wire services agreed to set up a joint Network Election Service that will di vide the chores, pool the results, and present the same vote count to a viewer no matter what channel...