Word: mail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each week, by plane, train, truck - and local mail carriers, TIME is rushed to its readers in 185 countries. And sometimes, given unexpected help, the magazine's circulation reaches far beyond our far-reaching distribution system. For more than three years, 37 readers on an isolated Pacific island have been receiving TIME in, of all things, a tin can. The copies arrive courtesy of William H. Dame, the gift-shop manager on the Matson Lines' S.S. Monterey, who loads a watertight container with recent issues each time his ship passes the volcanic isle on its transpacific trips. Waiting...
...Vietnamese-a large share of them teachers, policemen and elected or natural leaders-have been killed or kidnaped. Translated to the United States, that would be more than 600,000 people, with emphasis on mayors, councilmen, policemen, teachers, government officials and even journalists who would not submit to black mail." For the past three weeks, Communist terrorists have relentlessly harassed the inhabitants of 991 Vietnamese hamlets and villages, which this month are casting ballots in the nation's first local elections to be held since 1964 (see THE WORLD...
...sentiment. Yet McCall apparently feared that unless they delayed, the Governors would find themselves inextricably locked in with Romney-though, in fact, the Michigander to date has hardly succeeded in turning the key. More than one Governor appears lukewarm on Romney. Even before he put the letter in the mail, McCall had enthusiastic pledges of support from such bright, attractive moderates as Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer, Maryland's Spiro Agnew and New Mexico's David Cargo...
...scene after scene, the film accurately portrays the major sequences of the crime: the initial holdup at London airport to bankroll the big caper; the carefully planned mail call in which not a pound note was overlooked, and the only injury was suffered by a locomotive engineer who proved unexpectedly belligerent; the foolish, post-heist swaggering of the thieves; the burial of the loot in such out-of-the-way places as a church graveyard; Scotland Yard's massive descent upon the scent. At film's end, a voice ominously booms the warning that some of the robbers...
...diplomatic dispatch. When, for example, the U.S. wanted to let the French know what would happen if they withdrew from NATO, they gave a reporter a story about the kinds of reactions that might be provoked by a French withdrawal. Nothing so unsubtle could be included in the diplomatic mail...