Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enrollment of Harvard students has dropped in recent years since the University allowed students to take more than four courses without increasing tuition, Pihl said. Furthermore, graduate students have generally stopped attending Summer School since Harvard decided five years ago not to allow summer courses to count for the residency requirement...
DIED. Conn McCreary, 58, racehorse trainer and jockey who won the Kentucky Derby aboard Pensive in 1944 and Count Turf in 1951; of a heart attack; in Ocala, Fla. The 4-ft. 8-in. McCreary won a reputation as a savvy, cool horseman during a 21-year career, and was elected to horse racing's Hall of Fame...
James Boswell, whose recurrent gonorrhea gives this book its captivating title was a glutton for debilitating pleasures. The biographer of Samuel Johnson swilled and swived his way through 18th century London and suffered, by Dr Ober's documented count, 19 acute attacks of urethritis. Just how the clap affected his writing is not readily apparent. More comprehensible are the roots of Boswell's reckless social life, specifically his Scots Calvinist origin with its severe strictures against wine and wenching. For Boswell, the embodiment of this authority was his father, the eighth Lord Auchinleck, a straitlaced, unaffectionate parent...
...spokesman dismissed the reports as nonsense, and at week's end he was said to be negotiating a $293 million deal to buy aircraft from Dassault-Breguet, the French planemaker, presumably on behalf of the Saudi government. Nor has Ojjeh's opulence declined. At last count he owned ten Rolls-Royces, 30 Mercedes and two Boeing 707s. Says he: "I do not lack the necessities of life...
...population, helped along by inflation, has in the past decade been growing at an average annual rate of 14%. Today, the company calculates, precisely 519,834 Americans-or about one in every 424 citizens-have a net worth of $1 million or more. In 1972, by contrast, the Government count of millionaires was "only...