Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...protest your downgrading of diplomacy, which since time immemorial has been outranked only by prostitution, the world's oldest profession. This intimate relationship is because they are the only two professions in which experience doesn't count. ROBERT W. RINDEN Washington...
...company of TV's Wyatt Earping Actor Hugh O'Brian, 33. Heading for the gaming tables, Soraya professed herself a greenhorn at the deceptively simple game of blackjack. Soon relieved of about $40 by his beautiful visitor, Soraya's casino host sportingly volunteered: "She seemed to count pretty good." O'Brian, asked if he had serious matrimonial designs on his date, drawled: "You'd better ask the princess." Soraya, once a queen but never a princess, only smiled mysteriously. When Romano Mussolini was a boy, his father, Italy's Dictator Benito Mussolini, who sawed...
Then, around 1 a.m., Nixon votes began to pour in. Although this influx was felt more in raw popular vote than in the electoral college, it nonetheless made things too close for Kennedy to claim a victory. By one count, Kennedy hovered a delicious one electoral vote away from victory for something like two hours. NBC gave California and the decision to Kennedy at 7:19 a.m., but Nixon continued to cut into Kennedy's popular-vote edge. Figures late Wednesday night showed that Kennedy's lead had dropped to approximately 320,000 out of more than 65 million votes...
...Ohio Supreme Court, Judge Allen was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from Cleveland, Ohio. She held the job for a quarter of a century, until her retirement in 1959, writing more decisions than she herself can count. "I never totaled them up," she says, shaking her head and laughing. "I never had time--whenever I finished with one group of cases, I just went right on to the next batch...
With the candidate delayed somewhere along his route, the crowd, huddled under theatre marquees and restaurant awnings, had to be content with sideshows. In front of Lindy's, a young boy sporting 25 (count 'em) king size Kennedy buttons, argued with a middle-aged Nixon lady. "Nixon's more of a Hitler than Kennedy is," he shouted...