Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pitched battles broke out in half a dozen Algerian towns. It was impossible to count all the casualties, but reliable estimates ranged as high as 560 dead (460 of them rebels) and possibly thousands injured...
...Star Jack Webb built an entire Dragnet around Irish coffee. From Ireland came Count Cyril McCormack, John's son, sales director of John Locke & Co. Irish distillery, to see what was going on at the Buena Vista. From the Buena Vista, Bartender Jack Koeppler made a pilgrimage to Ireland and was guest of honor at a luncheon tendered by Deputy Prime Minister William Norton. "I might have been Saint Patrick himself, come to throw the snakes out," says Washington-born German-descended Bartender Koeppler...
...printed map, accompanying each invitation, showed the way to the picnic ground, a 280-acre government estate some 60 miles from Moscow, once the property of Count Orlov, a favorite of Catherine the Great. Here, behind a high board fence topped with barbed wire and guarded by soldiers, the Soviet leadership was in line to welcome the guests...
...itself a bigger slice of this audience, Manhattan's WRCA-TV, flagship of the NBC network, moved right into the boudoir last week with a silken five-minute sign-off spot called Count Sheep (weekdays, 1 a.m.). Its star is Nancy Berg, a 24-year-old, Wisconsin-born model, who floats onscreen in filmy lace, stretches her bare arms, yawns delicately, glances teasingly out of her cathode bedroom, pops into bed and out again for a moment's play with her French poodle...
...finest known collection of 19th century classics, it will probably bring the third highest price ever paid for a stamp collection. At current prices, the most valuable collection ever was that of Italian Count Philippe von Ferrari, which was auctioned after World War I for $1.6 million, about one-third of estimated present value if intact...