Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both Houses of Congress the administration must count on the votes of Republicans to supply a majority for the rights bill. Even for his usual, tenuous 8-to-7 majority on the House Rules Committee, Mr. Kennedy is indebted to two liberal Southerners, who can be expected to oppose the rights measure. Thus, unless the votes of two committee Republicans can be won over, the bill may die in the hearing room, or at least be seriously delayed again. Consider that Rep. Halleck thinks some of the sections of the subcommittee's bill "would be most difficult...
...REHEARSAL. Purity corrupted is a theme that obsesses French Playwright Jean Anouilh. In this prismatic and bitter comedy, a count's true love for a governess is destroyed by some sophisticated drawing-room criminals...
...Leftovers. The microwave ovens will never take over in restaurants that consider a meal something of an art as well as very much of a commodity; they sell best where speed and convenience count more than cuisine. Many restaurants, hotels, motels, hospitals, factory cafeterias, railroad dining cars, snack bars and hamburger stands are now turning to high-speed electronic ovens -and the ovens are even being installed in vending machines that serve hot sandwiches. Such electronic giants as General Electric, Raytheon, Litton Industries and Tappan are in the field, competing with at least three smaller firms. Sales...
...Crimson will again count on one-two finishes from sophomore sensation Walt Hewlett and captain Ed Meehan. And barring the unexpected, Crain and Ogden should finish third and fourth. Sophomores Langdon Burwell and Dave Allen, who have been improving rapidly, will probably also be among the top finishers...
...fracas, though, France's first few Estates are undressed and their flabby forms thoroughly mocked. The pudgy bishop with his charming son, the stuttering judge and his artless encourage of wig-wearing half-wits, and the lecherous count hardly evoke respect for the leaders of the old monarchy. They all get their clothes back, finally, with a dab of cau de cologne, but the audience doesn't forget the bandy legs and buttressed bosom it has seen...