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Then, around 1 a.m., Nixon votes began to pour in. Although this influx was felt more in raw popular vote than in the electoral college, it nonetheless made things too close for Kennedy to claim a victory. By one count, Kennedy hovered a delicious one electoral vote away from victory for something like two hours. NBC gave California and the decision to Kennedy at 7:19 a.m., but Nixon continued to cut into Kennedy's popular-vote edge. Figures late Wednesday night showed that Kennedy's lead had dropped to approximately 320,000 out of more than 65 million votes...
...work on the program was Trade Nocturnes Pour Orchestra by Debussy. It was good to hear this "Impressionist" masterpiece treated with a clear-headed approach that brought out the work's structural solidity. This was not the fog-bound Debussy, but rather the Cartesian Debussy. The essentially rationalist reading was handled excellently by Senturia's charges...
...panic set in among the Communist delegates. Rumania's Deputy Foreign Minister Eduard Mezincescu popped up on a point of order, and Khrushchev took off his shoe, waved it and pounded it. Then, apparently dissatisfied with Mezincescu's protest, Nikita Khrushchev strode briskly down the aisle to pour vituperation on Sumulong...
Dangerous Location. But in the Circle of Willis (named for English Anatomist Thomas Willis, who described it in 1664), surgery is tricky. Into the circle, like highways converging into a cloverleaf, the four ascending arteries pour the brain's blood supply, and from the circle branch off the principal feeder lines from which oxygen is extracted for the brain's ceaseless activity. Located inside the skull about the eye-and-ear level, the Circle of Willis is in too dangerous a place for surgeons to cut into its vessels. Yet the different segments of the circle...
...denominator of U.S. taste and haste. Johnson, 63, not only controls the world's largest restaurant chain (607), but has set up motor lodges in 24 states, now sells frozen and canned foods (clams, chicken croquettes) in supermarkets from Maine to Florida. This year 310 million customers will pour $200 million into Howard Johnson tills, $120 million of which will go either directly or through franchise returns to Howard Johnson's family-owned operation (including 296 restaurants...