Word: counts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...post and the job of roving ambassador for Amin. Packing her bags in her Kampala home, the statuesque princess (her family were deposed as rulers of Toro in 1966) said that she would be known simply as Elizabeth Bagaya in Cairo. Sounding like a lady the boss can count on, she added: "I am excited and grateful that General Amin, a champion of the Arab cause, has chosen...
...Jack Dempsey is still not a man to count out, as his landlords have learned. It seems that the Inch Corp., a real-estate holding company, bought the building that houses Jack Dempsey's restaurant, a Broadway landmark for tourists and the prizefight crowd, in 1967. Since then, Inch has tried to evict Jack on the grounds that his lease is no longer valid. Taking him to court in June 1973, Inch was outpointed when Dempsey won the ruling. Bouncing back, Inch sued again in December. Last week a judge again gave Dempsey the decision. Even as Jack savored...
...debunk the fluke election theory. Unidad Popular, the six-party coalition which backed Allende in 1970, won 51 per cent of the votes in the April 1971 municipal elections. Traditionally, ruling parties lose votes in the mid-term congressional elections; in March 1972, Unidad Popular raised its national vote count to 43 per cent of the total electorate. The right, which expected to take 60 per cent of the vote in 1972 began to fear that UP would win with 75 per cent...
...warn him of the worst. Says Rhodes: "I told him why it [the articles of impeachment] would be voted out. All you have to do is look at the numbers of Democrats on that committee who put in resolutions of impeachment or said they favor impeachment." Nixon, who can count votes too, did not really need to be told. The President, reports Rhodes, "didn't seem overwhelmed or surprised...
...first period ended with Cornell looking at the wrong end of a 2-1 count, as Randy Roth picked up a rebound lying conveniently in front and shot it home...