Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When she got the mail from the letter box one morning last week, a Bavarian housewife noted that one letter was addressed to her absent husband, who had recently been enrolled in West Germany's fledgling army. She also noticed that the letter was daintily scented and that the handwriting was obviously feminine. After a minuscule struggle with her conscience, she ripped open the envelope, read...
Delivered in the mail at the district clerk's office in Little Rock, Ark, one day last week was a 35-page legal ruling that reopened the running sore of the Little Rock desegregation crisis. U.S. District Judge Harry J. Lemley, sitting temporarily in Arkansas' Eastern District, granted a petition by the Little Rock school board to suspend racial integration at Central High School until January, 1961. Reason: while the Negro students "in the Little Rock district have a constitutional right not to be excluded from any of the public schools on account of race," desegregation has simply...
...work in his office in Juneau's grey stone Federal Building, deals with the 47 appointive territorial boards and commissions, oversees emergency work projects, orders examination of fiscal programs that will help prove Alaska's ability to stand alone, confers with Washington and territorial officials, studies his mail, e.g., "We the undersigned students have been recently examined by Dr. Brownlee and 60 having been found with defective teeth, do humbly petition our Governor, Mike Stepovich, to send us a dentist...
...Cadillac. And her father, who played bull fiddle in Jerry Lee's band, didn't seem to object either. But the London press, already fed up with the antics of Britain's own rock-'n'-roll stars, was all shook up now. The Daily Mail angrily demanded that Jerry be sent back "whence he came, somewhere in the mid-belt of America's deep delinquent South." "He could and should." stormed the Sunday People, "be arrested by the police," reminding the Home Office that cohabiting with 13-year-old girls is against British...
...raise Ike asked), would also provide a three-year cost-of-living raise for postal workers in lower civil service grades. To finance the increases, postal rates go up, e.g., on Aug. 1, under the bill, the cost of domestic letters would jump from 3? to 4?, domestic air mail from 6? to 7?, postcards from 2? to 3?. Second-class rates (magazines and newspapers) will rise by steps over a three-year period to a total increase (weighted for content) of 28% for editorial matter and 53% for advertising matter...