Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because Sonny likes to have beautiful things out and in use, Marylou uses the silver cups and platters won by the Whitney racing stable for everything from caviar to sherbet. The same goes for the jewelry that Sonny loves to collect. As a result, Marylou has been a stunning adornment to every ball she has attended. Adding a special luster is the 1,900-diamond tiara, once the property of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, which she likes to wear for specially grand occasions, such as the opening of the Metropolitan Opera...
...hospital, suffering from what was described as an overdose of barbiturates. She died the next day of a condition that looked strangely like insulin poisoning. Frank Stewart, 54, was the fourth, in 1960. Taken to the hospital after apparently faking a fall in an airport rest room to collect on insurance, Stewart was visited by the ever-solicitous Archerd-and died after the usual convulsions that night. Archerd, recipient of the insurance, tried but failed to collect. At about this time, Archerd's brother Everett died at his job, and Archerd and his mother were entrusted with...
...Egyptian Singer Um Kalthoum, who barely two months ago was inciting the Arabs with breathy ballads about Israel's coming defeat, has a new job. She is directing a campaign to collect gold, jewelry and stashed-away cash to help Egypt's battered economy. If her daily pleadings have not convinced the Egyptians of the costliness of their rout by Israel, Gamal Abdel Nasser has. Last week he promised his people "a real, cruel and difficult struggle ahead." And "economic struggle," he told the fellahin, "means economic sacrifice. We must eliminate all privileges...
...Jersey has imposed liability since 1877 for property damage in cities with paid police forces. However, the claimant cannot collect if he was negligent in protecting his property or failed to advise police that it was in danger. To determine how the law affects victims of the Newark riot, merchants and tavernkeepers are lining up to file test cases...
...reimbursed insurance companies $650,000 for riot claims, paying off at the rate of 750 on every dollar paid out by the companies. It still has outstanding claims of about $250,000. California repealed its 95-year-old liability law in 1963, two years before Watts. Now Californians can collect only by suing the private individual responsible or by proving negligence by individual officers, and suing them instead of the government...