Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear that Kennedy is demanding a recount in the hopes that Nixon made it after...
...twelve years, at the beginning of each new session of Congress, Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Carroll Kearns has methodically offered a resolution demanding that a congressional delegation be dispatched to recount the gold buried at Fort Knox. The resolution was what Congressmen call "constituent bait," designed solely to impress Daughters of the American Revolution, who are powerful in Kearns's home district. Year after year the Kearns resolution and dozens of similar motions have been ignored by the House Rules Committee and allowed to die decently-as the authors expected. But last week, to the surprise of Carroll...
Conway objects to examination questions which "put the student in a box." "Frederick the Great was neither a great general nor a great politician; but he was a great king. Discuss." Often, he said, this sort of question leads the student to recount a set of specialized facts, discouraging any ideas except the lecturer's and leading the student to rely too heavily on the standard of academic expertise...
...Kennedy victory was could be seen in the arithmetic: including shaky California and Illinois, Kennedy had won 332 electoral votes; Nixon, with razor-close Alaska, had 191; the popular-vote spread was a hairline 279,000. It was so close that Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton called for a recount of the votes in Kennedy-edged Texas, Illinois, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Some Republicans even dared hope that the recounts might still add up to a Nixon victory (but Nixon disassociated himself from the whole project...
Over 100 University job-seekers last night heard five students recount their experiences of last summer as job trainees with AIESEC, the Association International Des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commercials...