Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Count on Dirksen. Obviously there is more to it than Ev's honeyed words convey. Under the Nixon Administration, Dirksen has lost some of his former power and luster. Nixon, 56, is a generation apart from Dirksen, 73, and the President favors younger congressional leaders. Nor does Nixon deal with individual legislative barons in the same intensely personal manner that Johnson did. What is he going to do about Dirksen? If the Senator keeps embarrassing him, he could be forced into a direct showdown. A President does not easily lose arguments with his own party. On the other hand...
...much that mattered to the rest of the world was a measure of De Gaulle's outsize scale, his legerdemain in making France count for more than her resources and her population of 50 million people really justified. It mattered to Britain, which he had twice imperiously barred from the Common Market. It mattered to tiny secessionist Biafra, which he had kept alive with arms shipments against federal Nigerian forces for the, past nine months. It weighed heavily in the Middle East, where he was virtually the only partisan Western friend that the Arabs had. It certainly mattered to Washington...
...anyway, Billy-still a prince in name and by no means a pauper-gave up his throne last week. After his abdication, the Trustbusters said that they would nonetheless try to stop General from taking over the empire. But Prince was gone, having retreated to clip his coupons and count all his money. Moral: Uneasy lies the head...
Superior conditioning usually gives a service team an edge, but if Harvard's performance last weekend against previously undefeated Army is an indication, the Middies shouldn't count on that advantage. Levin, Rocky Jarvis, and Terry Oxford won their first three singles matches in straight sets, with Levin downing the Cadet's undefeated Bill Malkemes at number...
Shortly afterward, Ince lost the ball to Keith Mauney behind the Princeton net, but Mauney passed right to Zuckerman who fed the charging Nicosia. The Crimson captain's shot bounced off two pipes, hit the goalie, and rolled in. "They count any told way," Nicosia later said...