Word: collectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, writs impounding three planes flown to the U.S. were served on the government-controlled Cubana Airlines. A Miami advertising agency, trying to collect an unpaid $285,000 bill for tourist advertising, obtained two of the writs; the third was obtained by a Cubana stockholder in Florida concerned over the Castro government's progressive nationalization of the line's assets. Actually planes flying to the U.N. on government business are entitled to diplomatic immunity, and the U.S. State Department tried to advise Cubana how to void the writs, but the company ignored the advice...
...question was given greatest emphasis when Steve Allen launched into a protracted fund-raising "rou- tine." "Who will give one hundred dollars for peace?" Allen asked, "those people willing to contribute please raise their hands." Then, attempting to collect donations from $50 to $1.00, he teased the crowd with such phrases eas "a city of this affluence," "an audience as intelligent as this," and "show your interest in peace...
While the past fortnight gave Jack Kennedy an advantage in being able to campaign without competition, it also gave Nixon the advantage of being able to store up some rest and collect his thoughts-an advantage that a sometimes hoarse and weary Jack Kennedy might well eye with envy...
...also works at the natural level, as our Lord clearly saw, overruling and guiding even the minds of non-Christian men and women. There is, in the words of the collect, a 'never-failing Providence which ordereth all things both in heaven .and earth.' Such then, according to the New Testament, is the koinonia [fellowship] of the Spirit...
...wolf) is gradually turning the business over to his son Rogerio. 36, who is one of the owners of the single-plane airline that flies gold in from Hong Kong, only 15 air minutes away. On arrival each shipment of gold is meticulously weighed by Portuguese authorities determined to collect the import duty of 42? an ounce, the biggest source of Macao's revenue. After the weighing, the authorities discreetly withdraw. Then the syndicate's employees melt down the international gold bars (usually weighing around 27 lbs.) into the portable 9-oz. bars or thin gold sheets preferred...