Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Armed with a federal court certificate, the qualified voter would then register and vote in both state and federal elections-if need be. in the presence of the referee, who would also attend the vote count. In cases where state officials refuse to comply (in the past, for example, registration boards have frustrated Negro attempts to vote merely by shutting their offices), they would be open to punishment for contempt of the federal court...
...Beat the Clock as if each alert were the real thing. And when they get the sign-off, they return to their moleholes to await again the sound of that eerie klaxon; it could come again in five minutes or five hours. Usually, though, the alert crews can count on enough time to clean up. "The only time you dare take a shower," says one pilot, "is right after an alert. Some day they'll fool us and blow the horn again just after we get back...
...charting the future, Knowles makes a key assumption of his own: that the U.S. knows enough about its economy and has built so many safeguards that it will not again fall into a major depression similar to the 1930s. With increased stability, says he, the U.S. can count on a "very substantial increase in the growth rate, affecting the rate of growth of the labor force, the rate of decline in hours of work, the rate of accumulation of capital, the speed with which new technology is incorporated in actual production processes and the composition of demand...
...thousand votes, I'm taking it as a victory. The popular vote tells the story. If a Bostonian can come out here and outdraw a Midwesterner in his own backyard, then to me that's a victory. I don't care what the delegate count says." Obviously, Jack Kennedy was setting the rules to fit his game-i.e., was carefully bracing himself in case Hubert Humphrey should win more Wisconsin delegates than Kennedy. (Of Wisconsin's 31 delegate votes, 25 come from the congressional districts, five go to the winner of the popular vote...
...Imprisoned most of the leading Algiers plotters-including Count Alain de Sérigny, proprietor of Algeria's most influential daily, L'Echo d'Alger...