Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long & Short. In the old days the wealthier Chinese in the cities could count on a handful of Western-trained doctors practicing modern medicine; in the far interior many of the poorest Chinese got equally good care, free, from medical missions. In between, tens of millions relied on the thousands of traditional and often secret herb remedies. For serious ills they might seek treatment by a doctor versed in acupuncture (TIME, June 2, 1952), in which special needles are thrust into the body at a specified angle and to a certain depth, and in surprising places considering the complaint...
...count the number of first-class hotels built in metropolitan U.S. since the war, all a statistician needs are the fingers of both hands. But to total the number of new motels that have sprouted up around big cities and along U.S. highways, the experts need an adding machine. What was once a sorry second choice for prewar travelers has skyrocketed into one of the biggest and fastest-growing of U.S. businesses. By last week, as winterbound families started planning their annual vacation motorcade, some 53,000 motels, doing a $1.5 billion annual business, dotted the roads from Maine...
...last count, tufting machines were busily turning out rugs in 150 mills through out the U.S., accounting for 29% of the rug market...
Breland's chickens also count, play poker, shoot popguns and walk on tightropes. Trained in similar mechanical ways are ducks and geese that beat on drums, hamsters that swing on trapezes, goats that dance and highjump, rabbits that kiss each other, pigs that clean up a cluttered room. There seems to be no limit to the tricks that mechanical reward devices can teach to almost any animal. "All we have to do," says Breland, "is to keep the act within the known limitations of the given species...
Born. To Nancy Oakes, 31, daughter of the late Sir Harry Oakes and ex-wife of Count Alfred de Marigny, who was acquitted in 1943 of the murder of his father-in-law in Nassau, and Baron Ernst Lyssard von Hoyningen Huene, 25, of Oberammergau, Germany: their first child, a son; in Nassau, Bahama...