Word: airmail
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...Yayoi Kusama's Air Mail Stickers, a collage made of 4,600 genuine airmail stickers all dutifully pasted in rows...
...Facsimile transmission not only promises to eliminate the relative slowness of jet-carried airmail, it conjures up visions of home-printed newspapers. With a satellite network to gather information for the editors and the same network to transmit that information to subscribers, an improved version of office copying machines may soon be hooked to home TV sets to make high-quality reproduction of text and pictures on rolls of reusable plastic...
Died. Sumner Sewall, 67, pioneer aviator and Republican Governor of Maine from 1941 to 1945, a World War I ace (seven planes, two balloons) who teamed with Juan Trippe in 1926 to fly the first New York-to-Boston airmail run, as Maine's World War II Governor organized one of the country's first Civil Defense Corps, later returned to aviation as president of American Overseas Airways, helped build it into a major transatlantic carrier before it merged with Trippe's Pan American in 1950; of a heart attack; in Bath...
Between the original alarm and the denouement, Goldwater seized upon the opportunity to deride the communications system. Snorted Barry: "With the great communications system which McNamara is always bragging about, they are waiting for an airmail letter to find out just what did happen...
...recipe for Texas cookies. They presented a particular problem, however, because they must be formed by a special cutter that makes them the shape of the state of Texas. After an unsuccessful search through Manhattan stores, Pat called her mother in Houston and had a Texas cookie cutter sent airmail special delivery, thereby enabling her to provide what Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum, who was in charge of the story, could not resist describing as research that really gave him something to chew...