Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Five thousand supporters of Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) turned out for a rally in Woburn last night. The rally's organizers had expected 700 to come. They made arrangements for 2500 to hear the Senator but turned away an equal number...
...thousand Mattapan residents attended a public meeting Tuesday to protest MBTA extension plans which would place a rail yard in their community...
...success is particularly remarkable. (The other outstanding example of progress is the USSR, where advance was slower, but the problem was also of a very different magnitude.) The Cuban campaign began in January, 1961, with an appeal to secondary students to "help in the battle." Thirty-four thousand professional teachers trained and directed the student volunteers. Castro mobilized 268,420 of them for what UNESCO estimated was a fantastic student-teacher ratio of three...
Much of the land is mountainous and semi-arid. There was a drought in the north last fall, and there will be a famine this spring. CARE is presently mobilizing to send emergency health teams with food supplies to the area, but several thousand people will probably die of starvation...
Hardly. In 1949, NASCAR sanctioned 87 races on 25 tracks around the U.S.; last year it sanctioned 1,027 races on 85 tracks around the world. Attendance has grown from a few hundred thousand fans to an estimated 12 million, and instead of gasoline money, drivers now compete for $3,500,000 in prizes. New tracks have sprung up all over the country-Charlotte, N.C., Atlanta, Riverside, Calif. But the showplace is still Bill France's own Daytona International Speedway...