Word: collectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disadvantages of the open society. "Here in our country," he said in last week's televised speech to the nation, "anyone can buy maps and aerial photographs showing our cities, our dams, our plants, our highways-indeed, our whole industrial and economic complex. We know Soviet attaches regularly collect this information. Last fall Chairman Khrushchev's train passed no more than a few hundred feet from an operational ICBM. in plain view from his window." But openness also has its advantages. It fosters self-scrutiny and public criticism and free speech-more effective restraints against corruption, inefficiency...
...Milton Katims will stop at' the Orpheum movie theater. There, before an audience of symphony patrons, he will engage the soloist of the evening, Pianist Leon Fleisher, in a three-game pingpong match. Katims may lose, for Fleisher has a widely feared forehand slam, but he expects to collect about $10,000 from spectators for the symphony's sustaining fund...
...most popular verse of the Bible in Wellesley, Mass, is John 11:35. The reason became obvious this week when 266 boys and girls lined up to collect their cash prizes for memorizing Bible verses. John 11:35 is only two words-"Jesus wept"-and as good for a dollar as Esther 8:9, the longest...
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...require rest-home care so that each one has at least $150 a month. California provides a state base pension of $115 a month for five-year residents over 65 who have no income, $95 for those who have some income. Altogether, 21% of California's aged collect state pensions. For the aged who need help, the state pays all nonhospital medical expenses, including drugs and doctors' calls...