Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over a period of nearly five years, ever-increasing numbers (latest count: 952) of Japanese fishermen have languished in South Korean President Syngman Rhee's jails across the Tsushima Strait, pawns in a diplomatic stalemate created entirely by Rhee's longstanding hatred of Japan. "Korea has only three enemies." cried Rhee recently: "Japan, Russia and China...
...seller. Several months ago (long after the fact) Belgian authorities heard rumor of a pending sale, called on the Merode family, which had owned it for two generations, to stop the transaction. When it was pointed out that the altarpiece had been willed to the daughter of Count Guillaume d'Henricourt de Grünne. King Baudouin himself intervened in an effort to keep the work in Belgium. What no one told the King was that Countess Jeanne de Grünne, 28, had long since given up title to the famous work...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, currently has more cards under his name in the Widener catalog than any other faculty member, according to a CRIMSON survey. Since the time of the last count, in March, 1955, MacLeish has forged ahead from fourth place to take the title...
...economists projected a major increase in shipments, anticipated that in five or six years oil-rich Alberta, for example, would be pumping 400,000 bbl. of oil daily into the U.S. market. Any move to set limits on Canadian oil imports was a signal to Canada not to count too much on the U.S. to absorb her rising oil production. Moreover, the curb fell at a bad time for the new Tory government. As part of its campaign for greater economic independence from the U.S., it had been holding up approval for the export of Canadian natural...
Down for the Count. Kudner ran into trouble with TV, which it started using to plug Buick in 1952. It showed a knack for buying top TV shows at the height of their drawing power-just before they began to wane. Buick's big-league TV advertising suffered from the failures of Milton Berle, Joe E. Brown, Jackie Gleason. Kudner topped off its poor TV performance last August, when a closing Buick commercial was injected into the Floyd Patterson-Hurricane Jackson bout just as the referee stopped the fight and before Patterson could be declared winner. After complaints from...