Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face a mask of fear, his right fist pounding into his left palm. "So they're finally ready," he mumbled, turning into the bedroom to don his Army greens. Half an hour later, Calley walked shakily before the six-man jury, saluted and heard the verdict: on three counts, guilty of premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese civilians; on the fourth count, guilty of assault with intent to commit murder on a child approximately two years...
...though, military courts sometimes follow the unofficial "mere gook" rule, which devalues Vietnamese lives. One Army captain was accused of murder after ordering a trooper to shoot a captured Viet Cong. The court was told that he had commanded: "I don't care about prisoners. I want a body count. I want that man shot." Nevertheless the captain was acquitted...
Heading into the showdown Senate vote on the SST, proponents clung to a single hope, wispy as a contrail, of keeping the aircraft from crashing. Their head count showed 49 Senators against the plane, 47 for it, two absent and two wavering: Maine's Margaret Chase Smith and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. If Richard Nixon could land those two Republicans, the SST might yet take off. Vice President Spiro Agnew stood ready to cast a tie-breaking vote to continue the aircraft's funding...
...Actors are out-of-the-kitchen socially," he complained, "but not academically-at least not here." Putting forward the idea that the University as it is now formed doesn't recognize the "nobility of making things" (making Protestant clergy doesn't count), he nevertheless hopes that that situation is changing. To push the change seems to have been one of his major reasons for accepting this post. "I'm not sure I'm really trusted," he sighs, and claims that he often finds himself mentioning his M.A. from Indiana "rather inverse snobbishly." "But at least they have me here...
...claims in a fat 14-point complaint, took her black comedy away from her and "advised me ... that the film released would be that as cut and edited by Fritz Steinkamp, a Hollywood editor, and Robert Evans, a vice president of Paramount Pictures Corporation." In a fatter, angrier 81-count reply, Paramount insists that "Elaine May failed to perform her duties as a director in a timely, workmanlike and professional manner, resulting in substantially increased production costs...