Word: counting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Washington bureaucrat could see, something was wrong in Utah. All the computers and calculators of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget clicked off the same answer: Utah wasn't spending enough money, wasn't drawing her full allowance of federal grants-in-aid. Quicker than he could count up the digits in the national debt, an investigator was winging his way toward Salt Lake City to find out what was the trouble...
...with U.S. aid. "Cherbourg's example," said Defense Minister René Pleven as the last of the Importer's cargo of artillery, rifles and howitzers was swung ashore, "proves once again that the French people want to be free. They are showing the world that France can count on her people when safety calls...
Only one Virginia-bred horse, Reigh Count in 1928, has ever won the Kentucky Derby. Jockeys are notoriously superstitious and even wise Eddie Arcaro is not a man to ride in the face of such an imposing tradition unless he has a good reason. But Eddie was curious about the 1950 form of Christopher Chenery's Virginia-bred Hill Prince, a big (16:1 hands) bay colt, which had won six of his seven 1949 starts, three under Arcaro...
...story of Turandot comes from the same shop as Prokofiev's delightful The Love for Three Oranges, but it is a far less juicy piece of fruit. Puccini's librettists, like Prokofiev, took their story from an 18th Century "fable," i.e., play, of Count Carlo Gozzi, who in turn had been inspired by a Chinese-Persian legend about a beautiful but petulant princess of ancient Cathay. The princess announces she will marry any man of noble blood who can answer three riddles; if he misses an answer, he loses his head...
...houses, priced from $8,000 for two bedrooms to $9,000 for three. All had automatic garbage-disposal units, stainless steel kitchens, picture windows and garages. By week's end 611 houses had been sold (no down payment for veterans, one-third for others), and the buyers could count on moving in within two months...