Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the '40s, such as After All, Rain Check and Day-Dream. Three new songs composed just before his death make most admirable vehicles for the band: locomotive-paced The Intimacy of the Blues, which perfectly brings out its elegant, insinuating sound; Charpoy, a perking bounce; and Blood Count, a sinuous, sensitive ballad, with a Johnny Hodges alto solo, in the same vein as Passion Flower. Duke pays his respects with a pensive, if plush, rendition of Lotus Blossom, Strayhorn's own favorite...
Collapsed Movement. Vote projections by the networks and the wire services bounced about a bit between Monday and Wednesday, while Rockefeller men insisted on talking about the "erosion" of Nixon's strength. The most accurate count, as it turned out, was by the Nixon organization, which earlier had talked about 700 and privately refined its calculations to 702. Needed to be nominated: 667. As the nominating speeches droned on, Nixon visited his command trailer outside the hall and got word that a first-ballot victory was assured...
What had happened to all the optimistic predictions? "It looks like I didn't count properly," said Rocky. "I fell 75 short of what I estimated, and Ronnie fell 100 short of what he estimated." Reagan, for his part, said philosophically that he would not have done-could not have done-anything other than what...
...erosion," as possible vote shifts were invariably called, NBC viewers had to watch two days of model reporting in pursuit of a nonstory. CBS, on the other hand, tended to cover voting trends offscreen. Canvassing every single delegate, some since February, the network organized a running "CBS News Delegate Count." Since all that produced on the air was the latest totals,* CBS could devote more time to the circus side of the convention and diverting side bars...
...Acorn Stakes at Belmont by six lengths, packing 121 lbs. and tying the one-mile track record of 1 min. 34 4/5 sec.-set in 1942 by the famed Count Fleet, carrying only 116 lbs. She followed that up with a ten-length victory in Belmont's 1¼-mile Mother Goose Stakes and a twelve-length triumph in the 1¼-mile Coaching Club American Oaks, thereby becoming the first thoroughbred in history to capture the filly Triple Crown. By post time at the $57,950 Delaware Oaks two weeks ago, Dark Mirage had just about...