Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leadership on the Hill. Senate Leader Mike Mansfield is a fine gentlemanly fellow-maybe too much so for the hard political demands of his job. As for the House leaders-Speaker John McCormack. Carl Albert and Whip Hale Boggs&$151;they have yet to prove that they can even count noses before the vote comes...
Confusa: Well, Honestus, you can count me among the indignant ones right...
...serve as props for the plea of Attorney John Cofer, who argued that the reams of unfavorable publicity about his client made a fair hearing impossible. Unmoved, the grand jury handed down a new indictment against Estes, which raised the total number of his pending charges to 16 counts of mail fraud, twelve counts of illegally transporting securities in interstate commerce, and one count of conspiracy in faking the existence of scores of fictitious anhydrous ammonia tanks. Other developments in the Estes scandal...
...oldtime, nontechnical methods are not neglected either. Missile-sniffing dogs are getting intensive training. A pair named Dingo and Count are being schooled to locate small missile fragments coated with paint mixed with squalene, a noisome extract of shark-liver oil. The dogs have already learned to ignore coyote and rabbit scents, and they can whiff a shark-flavored fragment half a mile downwind. Vernon Miller, chief of the range instrumentation division, thinks that the dog detectives will be over the research hump and busy at serious work within six months...
...Belaunde's figures, he was the clear winner. An hour before midnight, before the count reached 200,000 and 10% of the vote, Belaunde sat at a typewriter, pecked out a victory statement with two fingers, and drove to the studios of Lima's Channel 13. At 11:30 the movie in progress faded out, and Belaunde's handsome face appeared. "I am able to predict our definitive victory," he announced...