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That was more than 108% above the 394,312-person average of Georgia's ten districts. The plaintiffs' case rested on the plain and simple fact that their votes for Congressmen did not count on a par with those of Georgians in other districts...
Like the Dempsey-Tunney long count and Jack Johnson's infamous dive against Jess Willard, this Liston-Clay fight will remain a subject of continuing controversy. Could a healthy Sonny Liston have made good his promise to cool Cassius in rounds two or three? This question can only be answered by a rematch...
...heard them cheering when it get to 14-10," Francis said later, "and I just thought, 'Don't count your chickens...
...legal party. But in hundreds of places the "no" boxes were sealed up or nonexistent. All the ballots carried the voter's registration number, which would make it easy to see who voted no. In Accra's Ward 22, the registration was 1,834, yet the official count showed a "yes" total of 5,791. The overall announced results: 2,682,095 yes to 2,480 no, for a 99.9% victory sweep...
...everything Panamanian, some two dozen families have the last hurrah. Since 1903, all 37 Presidents have come from the elite ranks. Through intermarriage and partnerships, they control the banks and businesses, sugar mills and coffee fincas, newspapers and radio stations. They are the employers and landlords who count: less than 1% of the country's landowners hold half of the privately owned land, most of it the choice acreage. In the bitter slang of the streets, Panamanians call them rabiblancos, meaning whitetails...