Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...count on a high place in local society, and, unless he is careful, cuddling up with the dragons and dragon ladies who run so many orchestras can easily do in his music while it velvets his life. In Seattle, Conductor Milton Katims has gently urged his salary up to $37,500 a year, about as much as the mayor and the school superintendent earn together, and nearly 20 times the pay of the men who fill the back chairs of his orchestra. In San Francisco, conductors come and go at the whim of J. D. Zellerbach and his fearful board...
...Lautrec's armor-clad ancestors went on the Crusades, his rich grandfather, father and uncles, all did their bit toward the greater grandeur of France. They were artists, too, as proved by their sketches of hunting scenes and country life, which are included in the exhibition. Says Count Robert de Toulouse-Lautrec, the painter's cousin and closest survivor: "Perhaps if Henri had not been deformed, he would have become a diplomat or an officer. But he certainly would have painted...
...reason: industry's present capacity has been more than enough to handle the consumer's spending rise up to now; capital spending and industrial production are not likely to rise much without even bigger consumer spending. Thus, economists who feel that the consumer needs a new stimulus count heavily on the tax cut that, to judge by public opinion polls, the consumer is leery...
...loud whistles send workers scrambling into the fields at any hour to harvest the crop. "It sounds silly," admits a Green Giant officer, "but if we figure the peas should be picked at 10 o'clock Sunday night, that is when we start picking." Later, quality-control men count the loose skins in cans-rejecting those with too many -and make an "organoleptic" test in which they bite sample peas, taste, swallow and, hopefully, like them...
...team will obtain statistics from death certificates and medical records of deceased alumni. Hopefully, some evaluation of the relative importance of body build and other high-risk factors, such as tobacco, cholesterol count, and high blood pressure, will be found...