Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Politics is like coaching football," he once said. "You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important." McCarthy seems to have gotten a lot smarter on the second count since his last crusade...
...list. At one point, early on, there were six for passage, two against. A few names later the score was six to six-and then it began to slide. The name of Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, an aristocratic internationalist, was called. Crisply, he announced: "No." Now the count stood at twelve for, 18 against...
...sort: 40 years ago, less than one-fifth of all known victims survived five years after diagnosis; now one-third live at least that long. Yet a basic understanding of cancer's causes and cure is still elusive-and the casualty list is growing. This year the death count will amount to 339,000 in the U.S. In 1972, according to the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society, the figure will rise...
...goalie, not realizing that the shot wouldn't count, came out of the goal to stop the pass. She failed to clear the ball to the side, leaving an open shot for right wing Jane Lord...
Breakfast in Bed. Besides its obvious convenience, Auto-Train promises to be, well, almost half the fun. In an age when rail passengers count themselves lucky if they can get stale sandwiches and warm soft drinks, the Auto-Train will seem like Queen Elizabeth 2 on wheels. For adults, there will be cocktails and complimentary hors d'oeuvres in each of the 13 full-dome coaches. The kids will be entertained with cartoons and a G-rated movie. At 9 p.m., a sitdown buffet will be served (Beef Wellington or lobster), followed by another movie for the grownups...