Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kids tackled it with imagination. Wrote Jean Francis: "I would collect my grandmamma in my father's car, and we would set off to get away as far as possible." Lesley Ann Brown also wanted to help others: "I would buy an airplane and take up as many friends as I could." James Hough would wait in the garden: "I would pray that it would land in the sea and do no damage." One girl decided to stab herself to death with a carving knife ("It would be quicker that way"). Billy Peart wrote stoutly: "I would make sure...
...Connecticut's Wesleyan, students braved a bitter New England night to collect $400 for a scholarship fund...
...simple "quiz" such as: "Name two Presidents of the U.S. besides Eisenhower who were once generals." For the correct answer, the Arthur Murray studios handed out "$25 in free lessons." But all too often, said FTC, the lucky winner found that he had to buy a complete course to collect his prize. FTC also rapped the "Lucky Buck" contest ("Check your dollar bills. If any of the serial numbers contains a 5 and 0 you've got a winner"), and objected to high-pressure sales talks which it said "coerce" prospects into signing up for dance courses...
...investigators and 200 National Guard troops plowed through the area to collect bits and pieces of the wreckage, they were aware of the possibility that the cause of the crash might never be discovered. There were some similarities to the still unsolved crash of another Electra last September, in which a Braniff plane went to pieces in the air over Buffalo, Texas. In both the Tell City and Buffalo crashes, severe air turbulence had been reported by the airmen aloft in the vicinity. And although Electras have generally performed well, instances of metal fatigue have been reported; Lockheed Aircraft Corp...
Pioneer's report, after covering the first million miles of its 500 million-mile orbit around the sun: "Everything is fine." Its internal temperature is 68° F., slightly lower than the standard temperature of a U.S. living room. The four paddles that collect solar energy for its radio are colder: 27° F. Eighty-seven slight impacts from , micrometeorites and five heavier ones were registered, but nothing really damaging. Other data will take months to interpret. Eventually they will tell about cosmic rays, magnetic fields and other space conditions between the earth and the orbit of Venus...