Word: mail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gives the money? Nixon's contributors include the Reader's Digest's DeWitt Wallace, Chicago Insurance Executive W. Clement Stone, Steel Heiress Helen Clay Frick, and 100,000 donors who sent in contributions by mail. Humphrey's finances are run by Stockbroker John L. Loeb, Sidney J. Weinberg and ex-Commerce Secretary John Connor. To raise his funds, McCarthy has Howard Stein of the Dreyfus Fund, his kinderklatsch and a pride of beautiful people. Kennedy's finances come mostly from the family coffers...
Gold-Plated Bikini. Chains are even becoming complete garments, themselves. For French Singer Franchise Hardy, Paris' Paco Rabanne recently created a suit of aluminum chain mail that weighs 34 Ibs. Says Francoise: "It forces me to exteriorize my sentiments, using only my voice, my eyes and my face." Translation: she can't move. Less weighty are the glittering chain tunics and boleros of Loris Azzaro, at 35 the fastest rising designer in Paris. True, the chain micro-dress he turned out for Brigitte Bardot's New Year TV special weighed eight pounds, but that did not prevent...
...pollsters rose to fame and influence on the basis of two celebrated debacles. During the 1936 presidential campaign, the old Literary Digest ran a mail poll and was wrong, while three more scientific pollsters were right. Those three-George H. Gallup, Elmo Roper and Archibald Crossley-conducted interviews among a predetermined mix of ethnic, income and age groups that seemed representative of the U.S. population. The other turning point was in 1948, when the pollsters again used this "quota system" of sampling-but were wrong. The U.S. had become so complex that picking just the right population...
...thing, the Senators had added a measure that would permit court-ordered wiretapping by federal and state authorities investigating almost any serious crime; federal authorities would not need a court order in emergency situations involving national security or organized crime. The legislators also authorized a ban on the mail-order sale of handguns, as well as $100 million in federal funds for local law enforcement. And, as many civil libertarians feared, the Senators voted to repeal some Supreme Court rulings they considered were hampering the police...
DRUGS breed tremendous distrust. At Exeter there's a story going round that a student had his mail opened by the academy who found some grass. He wasn't prosecuted because he couldn't be assumed responsible for what someone sent...