Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story traces the acrobatics of an oh so eighteenth century count with a weakness for a winsom lady-in-waiting. Matters are confused considerably by the marked maid's dashing fiancee, Figaro, and inevitably by the lascivious count's peppery countess. When the bedclothes settle, the audience finds the proper pairs in the proper places, and a host of villagers send the couples merrily on their connubial ways...
...Impasse. The scene, as so often in the past, was the autobahn corridor that passes through Communist-ruled East Germany between West Berlin and West Germany. As a routine function, Soviet guards stop U.S. troop convoys at checkpoint stations, count the soldiers-and then wave them...
...went unhindered, to its destination in West Germany. But the eastbound convoy got only 90 miles along the pike toward West Berlin when it was halted by tommy gun-toting Russian soldiers headed by a high-ranking Soviet officer. Again came the Communist command: everybody out for a head count. And again the U.S. convoy commander refused...
...series loosely based on the old Loretta Young movie. Diahn Williams is one of Harry's Girls (NBC), a comedy about a dance act that tours Europe. Most preadolescents have traveled enough to wince at the show's gauche international flavorings, and the humor is historic ("The count? Tell him to keep counting."), but Daddy will settle for Diahn, a tall, red-haired ex-baton twirler at the University of Miami...
...Crimson will also count heavily on John Ogden and sophomore Dave Allen. Ogden took things easy against B.U. because of a cold and finished 11th, but his sixth place finish helped the Crimson edge Providence in the first meet of the season