Word: mail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill requires creditors to tell prospective borrowers the true rate of interest they must pay and the dollars-and-cents cost of the loan as well. The House strengthened it by requiring department stores and mail-order houses that offer "revolving credit" to list the interest charges as 18% a year instead of the more innocuous-looking 1½% a month. Mortgages were also affected; lenders will now have to specify, in dol lars and cents, how much such long-term charges as interest will cost the buyer (a 25-year, 6% mortgage on a $20,000 house, for example...
...part is kept by him as a reminder of his pledge; one part goes to local headquarters, with instructions as to whether he needs transportation or a baby sitter on primary election day; one part, marked "White House Copy," is presumably sent to the President. In the return mail comes a photograph of Johnson and Lady Bird sitting in Air Force...
While Lyndon Johnson will be able to pull some polls from his pocket to show that his popularity has begun an upswing after a long decline, Harold Wilson's notices are dominated by those embarrassing cartoons. The most telling one, run in the Daily Mail, was a biting play on names, involving Wilson and Britain's Great Train Robber Charles Wilson, who was captured in Quebec two weeks ago. The cartoon showed two trusties chatting outside Robber Wilson's jail cell: "Like the proverb says, Fingers, you can fool some of the people some of the time...
...Your reference to me, however jocular, as the "resident fascist pig" of Harvard's Adams House contained erroneous implications. Already I am receiving lauda tory mail from "rightists," confirming my fear that the article implied that I am an uncompromising hawk on the war and that I have been abused by doves at Harvard. Nothing could be further from the truth. The appellate "resident fascist" was a jest made in absolute good nature by a close friend. The vast majority of Harvard students accept returning Vietvets with much interest and understanding...
...told Congress that it confronted "no more urgent business" than passage of his Safe Streets Act with a $100 million authorization, double the amount he requested last year. He called for a gun-control law to halt "the trade in mail-order murder" (an appeal that roused Robert Kennedy to his only applause during the 50-minute speech). To end "the sale of slavery to the young," he called for a narcotics-control act that would impose harsher penalties for the sale of LSD "and other dangerous drugs," and urged adding 219 agents to the present total...