Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole two-year package agreed upon with League Commissioner Pete Rozelle, CBS will pay the N.F.L. a record $37.6 million, for a boost of 30% over the last contract two years ago. This money will be shared out equally among the league teams, each of which will collect $1.2 million. The football teams, with crowds averaging 50,000 a game, have little fear of endangering their stadium attendance; CBS, which pulls about 13 million viewers for its N.F.L. games, could not afford to let the league go elsewhere. Says CBS's MacPhail, "They need us and we need them...
...spare time, Mrs. Ruth Kasper of Pennside, Pa., managed to collect 800 Ibs. of pretzels. In Dubuque, Iowa, Businessman John Walsh and eleven friends in five weeks rounded up enough books, cigarettes, candy, peanuts and soap to fill 3,500 cartons. Boston's Christmas Festival Committee, which is usually preoccupied with decorating the Common in late fall, raised $3,000 to buy gift packages from the city's fanciest grocer, S.S. Pierce. In Richmond, a neighborhood civic association passed the hat, bought 1,656 fruitcakes. A Charleston, W. Va., record-store owner asked teen-agers for their...
...Thinks for France? For the runoff, Mitterrand has become "the candidate of the Republic" instead of "the candidate of the left," hoping to collect some of Lecanuet's centrist bloc of votes. Lecanuet, eliminated but suddenly a national figure, has announced the formation of a new "democratic center" party, which might well provide some day the apres-Gaullism alternative...
...Lursakdi, a former Thai golf champion, inherited the company from her father, built it into one of the country's most progressive businesses. It provides workers with housing, healthy annual bonuses and profit sharing, has helped the emancipation of Thai women by hiring 80 of them to collect fares...
...going south this vacation, but your old clothes will, if you give them to SNCC. Harvard and Radcliffe students will visit the dining halls tonight. The garments they collect will go into a truck headed for the Vine City Thrift Shop in Atlanta...