Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Count me among the editors who were not amused by Thomas Griffith's snide remark in his report on Washington columnists [July 10], that "with an avoidance of judgment that they call being open-minded, editors now seek for their pages a 'broad spectrum' of attitudes...
Even in the cities, the rains were not good news for everybody. In Sacramento, which normally has one of the nation's highest hay fever rates, the drought had greatly lowered the pollen count. Hay fever is particularly prevalent now, some doctors say, because the allergy-prone became less resistant during the dry years...
...Summitry has personalized diplomacy, settled more responsibility on the men and women at the top. "At that level, decisions are all personal," former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said. "And how they are made and who makes them does make a difference." By one globetrotting diplomat's count, Carter went to Bonn with real support only from, Britain's Prime Minister Callaghan. The sentiment of the other five ranged from doubt to contempt...
Though they are a generation apart, Korchnoi and Karpov both grew up in Leningrad, and both are products of the vast Soviet chess bureaucracy. The U.S.S.R. promotes the game as "a weapon of intellectual culture." A network of chess clubs has produced, at latest count, 4 million players, among them 608 masters and 38 grand masters...
...women who would go out with him that evening, and his buddies were probably whooping it up in the backs of their pickups (or so he thought). But Bobby had his color T.V. and Ken Harrelson and Dick Stockton, and with Rick Burleson up against Ron Guidry, the count was 0-and-2. It was better than drinking alone...