Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like many other little girls, Electra Havemeyer liked to collect dolls. Her collection eventually included early American rag and wood dolls, dolls made of bisque, china, papier-mâchÊ, wax, rubber, rawhide, gutta-percha and celluloid. She also liked dollhouses, and wound up owning 43 of them, some big enough to accommodate people...
Tightlipped as usual, the Russians would say only that Venus 4 weighs 2,438 lbs. and will attempt to collect data on "super long-distance measurements," as well as to investigate surface conditions and other characteristics of cloud-covered Venus. Impressed by the weight of the Soviet craft-the heaviest ever sent to Venus-envious U.S. space experts speculated that it could be carrying a TV camera and a capsule capable of being ejected into the Venusian atmosphere and lowered to the surface-perhaps by parachute -in a soft-landing attempt...
...arguments seemed to create enough question about his role in the double-billing episodes to make some Senators accept his word above that of Michael O'Hare, one of the aides who stole Dodd's records. O'Hare had testified that Dodd ordered him to collect travel money from both the Senate and private organizations. Last week Dodd contended that if he had wanted to cheat in this manner, he could have done so on a grand scale rather than take merely $1,700 over five years. It was all O'Hare's fault...
...Upheld the right of a union to collect union-imposed fines from members who ignore a majority strike vote and cross the picket line. In dissenting, Justice Black noted that the National Labor Relations Act makes it an unfair labor practice for a union to "restrain or coerce" employees from such acts. Black expressed mystification as to why fines did not constitute such coercion...
...Olympics. After that, Hines figures to add a few pounds to his 6-ft. 1-in., 180-lb. frame and play pro football-although he has not tried on a helmet since he was a senior in high school. He is already counting the bonus he intends to collect: "Somewhere between...