Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just possible that the U.S. may not know who its next President will be until a good two weeks after the Nov. 7 election. Six states, anticipating slow delivery of ballots from the battlefronts, will not count their soldier votes until late in November. If the race is close, their 84 electoral votes may tip the scales of victory. And it is even mathematically possible-so the statisticians delightedly figured last week-that a final, hairline decision might be delayed even longer. The U.S. might actually hang on the hook of suspense until Rhode Island, with four electoral votes, counts...
...final count, Pollster Gallup gave Franklin Roosevelt all New England except Maine and Vermont, all border states except Missouri...
...entrance, for the Red armies to cross the East Prussian border. The Germans defending their own soil threw into battle armored units brought from Italy and "heavy catapult appliances" (possibly rocket platforms). The iron-muscled and iron-willed young Jewish general, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, had 150,000 men-by German count-massed on the province's eastern border. After an artillery barrage of 3,000 shells in 20 minutes, Chernyakhovsky's infantry closed in along the Kaunas-Konigsberg railroad. General Georgy Zakharov's army group also closed in over swampy ground from the south...
Barbara Hutton Grant, five-&-dime heiress, now suing Husband No. 2, ex-Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, to gain permanent custody of their 9-year-old son, admitted she had separated from Husband No. 3, Cinemactor Gary Grant, with "no chance for reconciliation." ("He isn't happy and I think it's best we part now. Besides, it's unfair and dishonest to take advantage of his name . . . because I am fighting to hold my child...
...living Harvard alumni, 22,620 are known to be in service in this war, according to the most recent count of the Harvard Alumni Association...