Word: collectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spears's ticket? The FBI began to patch together the pieces to decide whether Spears 1) sent Al Taylor on the DC-7B with a bomb hidden in his luggage to blow up the plane, thereby to fake evidence of Spears's death, collect a $100,000 insurance policy payable to his wife Frances Spears, 36, and escape the abortion charges in Los Angeles; or whether Spears 2) let Al Taylor ride the DC-7B on Spears's ticket and then, hearing of the crash, coolly decided to drop out of sight and play out a spectacular...
...Corbusier. It is a rare one that grows to be a force in his own right. For architectural stargazers, the most exciting new arrival is crew-cut Paul Rudolph, 41, who two years ago was appointed chairman of Yale's department of architecture, and is already beginning to collect a few satellites...
Line Is Busy. In Fresno, Calif., the Pacific Telephone Co. filed suit to collect $1,642.73 from the mother of twelve-year-old Helen Jackson, who made 462 calls to her boy friend in less than two months...
...commuter lines in the city by setting up a nonprofit corporation to run the lines. The city will control the corporation with eleven directors, give two directors to the railroads, two more to 23 labor unions whose members work on the roads. The corporation will set all schedules, collect all revenues, pay the roads for the use of their facilities at a guaranteed rate of $1,400,000 for the first year. It will get a $500,000 subsidy from the city this year, more in succeeding years, during which it plans to spend $5,000,000 for better stations...
Lowered Rope. On the floors above live the pimps and madams who control the lives and collect the earnings of the 500 De Walletjes whores. The estimate of daily customers ranges from 7,000 to 10,000. Very often the instant a client has left the stuffy, overheated ground-floor room, the pimp will lower a rope to which the prostitute must fasten the money she has earned. One madam, named Aunt Miep. would get outraged if she heard a girl wasting time talking to a client, and would stamp her crippled leg on the floor and scream...