Word: totalled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Show of Support. Dismayed as Humphrey was by his party's confused, cacophonous mood, he began to brighten perceptibly as the balloting got under way and moved him ever closer to the nomination. The total mounted toward the needed 1,312. "Oregon is zilch," said Humphrey; his fellow Minnesotan, Senator Eugene McCarthy, had won its 35 votes in the May primary. Humphrey leaned forward expectantly, then broke into a wide grin as Pennsylvania put him over the top with 103¾ votes. "Pennsylvania started it and Pennsylvania put us over!" said the jubilant Humphrey, recalling that the state's show...
Study Panels. To run the campaign, Humphrey named ex-Postmaster General Larry O'Brien to the dual post of campaign manager and chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Under the diffident John Bailey and in the face of total indifference on the part of the President, who never cared much about the mechanics of national politics, the committee has all but withered away in the past five years. O'Brien, who will handle both jobs without pay?but is anxious to depart immediately after the campaign to replenish his finances?promised to have the committee "updated and strengthened in every...
...common defense plans in the event that both nations should be struck simultaneously. Tito then canceled all army leaves and recalled some army reserves. Yugoslav tanks, in a pointed show of force, rumbled through Belgrade and moved into position along the Bulgarian border. Together, the Yugoslav and Rumanian armies total some 395,000 men. Most Yugoslav observers doubted that Tito would employ his forces to aid Rumania alone. But the grim prospect remained that if the Soviets tried to overrun Rumania and a shooting war erupted, the Czechoslovaks might well take up arms against their occupiers, and a Balkan...
...Total Isolation. Gradually, what had really happened in Moscow was made known and the humiliation of Dubček and the government exposed. On the morning of the invasion, Soviet troops had kicked their way into the room where Dubček was meeting with the other leaders. The Soviets hauled them out of their chairs and frisked them roughly for weapons. Then they forced Dubček and the others to lean against the wall, supporting themselves on their hands and remaining in that painful position for more than two hours. During that time, a Soviet officer stole...
...Protestants and still fewer Jews practice rhythm. In addition, Orthodox Jews abide by Niddah, the Mosaic law which prescribes abstention while a woman is "unclean" (Leviticus 15:19-24). Some rabbinical teachers have extended this time to a total of seven days after the end of menstruation...