Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Idaho, Johnson's gentle politicking increased the Johnson count from one to eight delegates, with a good chance of picking up six more (and with them, after the first ballot, control of the unit-rule delegates) by convention time. At a testimonial dinner for Governor Pat Brown in Los Angeles, Johnson's impassioned plea for national unity in the face of Khrushchev's threats brought his audience to its feet in an ovation, and-according to the experts-added 15 to 20 delegates to his California score. But in New Mexico Johnson suffered a setback when Kennedy...
...really ashamed of editorial cartooning in America." says Paul Conrad. "There are over 150 cartoonists, but you can count the good ones on the fingers of one hand...
Last week one of the two known surviving copies of the global map turned up for sale at London's famed auction house, Sotheby & Co. Owned by a Polish count, the map (11⅜ in. by 16⅜ in.) roused a gleam in the eye of Manhattan Rare Book Dealer Hans P. Kraus. He pushed the price up to $35,000 and walked off with...
...leaders a substitute measure similar to the Democratic bill. They agreed to the substitution, and if the maneuver had worked, it would have neatly sidestepped the Powell Amendment. But Indiana's House Minority Leader Charles Halleck, determined foe of federal school aid, torpedoed the plan with a firm count-me-out. The Democratic bill passed with the Powell Amendment attached, and Senate Southerners loosed the predictable howls. Alabama's Lister Hill, chairman of the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, vowed "unalterable and unequivocal" rejection of any measure that included the Powell Amendment...
...Across the Pacific, heavy losses piled up: in the Philippines 20 dead and $150,000 damage;*in Hawaii 56 dead, 8 missing, $50 million damage; in Japan 107 dead, 86 missing. $50 million damage. And in Chile, where at week's end the earth still trembled, the death count climbed toward 5,000 and the damage toward $400 million...