Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Others are using expensive but reliable courier services, paying as much as $8 to ensure delivery within 24 hours of a letter from Milan to Palermo. Northern Italians routinely drive an hour or more to mail letters in Switzerland...
...Before his first term was out, he had become a national figure for his role in the investigation of the attractive, patrician Alger Hiss as a former Communist courier. The House Un-American Activities Committee was ready to abandon its probe, but Nixon persevered until a plainly damaging case had been made against Hiss, largely on the witness of Whittaker Chambers, a brilliant and enigmatic writer and editor who, before he joined TIME in 1939, had been a Communist for 15 years...
Barry Bingham Jr., 40, wanted to be the world's greatest French-horn player. Lacking the talent, he turned to his family's two newspapers-the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times-and burnished their reputations as two of the finest instruments of journalism in the Midwest. Though he has extended the papers' liberal editorial positions, Harvard-educated Editor-Publisher Bingham has left the day-to-day news operation alone, and was one of the first publishers to hire full-time ombudsmen to monitor both reporting and advertising. To avoid conflicts of interest, Bingham and other...
...pictures of Premier Golda Meir's jubilant announcement of the troop disengagement, but the event occurred too late to chance sending the film to New York by normal commercial air express. At 1 a.m., Thursday, Rubinger's wife Anni, herself a professional photographer, was dispatched as a courier, and by that afternoon she was in TIME'S Manhattan offices with the pictures...
John P. Corr, columnist and feature writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer; Thomas J. Dolan, investigative reporter for The Chicago Sun-Times; Sheryl A. Fitzgerald, features editor, The Journal and Guide, Norfolk, Va.; David V. Hawpe, associate editor and editorial writer, The Courier-Journal, Louisville...