Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Considering events in Katanga, we Norwegians count ourselves lucky that there was no U.N. and no Dag Hammarskjold in 1905; otherwise, we would have had Ethiopian and Italian troops here to prevent our secession and enforce the authority of the central government in Stockholm...
Hotel guests and idlers sipping Pernods at the café tables could count and identify the aircraft on the carrier deck: two H13 and 34 Shawnee H21 helicopters, plus nine T-28 fighter-trainer planes. Leaning on the ship's rail were some of the 378 pilots and maintenance men of the U.S. Air Force...
...Middies can also count on distance star Gaylord Hopkins, who won the 220 and 440 yard freestyle events last year, to pick up his share of points...
...reading of New Yorker ads that appeared during the first six months of this year, it said, turned up only 206 exaggerations. But while the hyperbole count was down, the sound of superlatives was as loud as ever. Examples: "World's most obedient bed" (a mattress firm), "newest and purest" (a car), "most useable, liveable, likeable" (another car), "most mysterious" (a cosmetic), "most heavenly drink on earth" (a blend of gin, herbs and fruit flavoring). Said New Yorker Advertising Director A. J. Russell Jr., drawing on the wisdom of 33 years' experience: "We never win completely...
Died. Anna Gould, Duchess of Talleyrand, 83, daughter of Rail Tycoon Jay Gould and one of the first of the American heiresses whose marriages infused new blood-and new money-into Europe's sagging aristocracy; of a heart attack; in Paris. Wed to Count Boniface de Castellane in 1895, Anna Gould divorced him after an 11-year phantasmagoria of pink marble palaces and $150,000 parties during which the Parisian gay blade skated through more than half of her $13.5 million inheritance. Two years later, she wed the fifth Duke of Talleyrand, a descendant of the wily French diplomatist...