Word: collectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, investigators logged the place and hour of each adult pedestrian fatality in Manhattan. Then, reported Dr. William Haddon Jr., a team went there at the same hour the next day and interviewed the first four pedestrians who happened along. The researchers went so far as to collect breath samples from them. The victims presumably differed somehow from their neighbors who crossed the same streets safely at the same hours...
...surprise of his guests. Nixon revealed that he had already begun naming an informal fact-finding committee whose members will tour the farm areas and collect on-the-spot facts, figures and information on attitudes to help him formulate a workable program. Such a program, he said, will be ready for a campaign plank after the Republican Convention, and hopefully it will be a good one, so that neither he nor G.O.P. Congressmen will have to run on Ezra Benson's record. Nixon added that he plans a hard campaign through the Middle West and particularly in towns under...
Even so, many countries with high incomes and low defense budgets still collect sizable sums. In fiscal 1960 the U.S. will deliver $38 million in military aid to Norway, which pumps only 4% of its G.N.P. into its own defense; $48 million to Denmark, which budgets 3% of its G.N.P.; $58 million to The Netherlands, which puts up 5% of its own G.N.P. The European countries are slowly-very slowly-raising their defense budgets. Since 1950, free Europe has increased its defense spending from $8.8 billion to about $14.5 billion, while the U.S. has more than tripled its military spending...
...from John Singleton Copley to Edward Hopper, realism seems the keynote of American art, and romanticism remains underrated. With the single exception of Albert Pinkham Ryder, the American romanticists have never achieved the fame of their realist contemporaries. To collect and cherish such little-known artists takes courage and personal conviction...
Eskimos take creativity for granted and find it hard to fathom why anyone would want to collect something another person has made. In a land where a man can be killed by a glass of water thrown in his face (it freezes in flight), and where the main supply of food comes from the hunt, the Eskimo has developed an uncanny sense of observation. He can mimic a stranger on sight, often fools seals by flapping his arms like flippers until he is near enough to throw a harpoon. In his art, he can catch the look of the injured...