Word: mail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disc jockey in Tampa, Florida, until two months ago, claims that "all music" is a more sophisticated sound than the screaming and babbling that mark other Boston stations. The extremely favorable response of Boston's large college audience seems to bear this out -- Harvard has contributed as much mail as any group to the young station. WNAC general manager Perry Ury says, "We've removed the major irritant that radio listeners object to: the jockeys...
...world was busy celebrating Pablo Picasso's 85th birthday last week. Some dozen exhibitions have opened from Lapland to the Los Angeles County Museum and Macy's department store in New York City. Bags full of mail and telegrams arrived at Mougins, a tiny town above the bay at Cannes on the French Riviera, where Picasso lives. Grateful citizens of Vallauris, the town Picasso resurrected by reviving its pottery industry, sent a huge bouquet of red roses with a white dove in a cage, and their children sent batches of their best crayon drawings. His wife Jacqueline...
...past several months, women have gone to work producing steel and rebuilding auto parts in Chicago, loading post-office vans and delivering the mail in Atlanta, welding and operating metal-stamping machines in Fort Worth, driving cabs in Seattle, running power cranes in Los Angeles, and pumping gas at service stations along the Illinois Toll Road. Elsewhere, women have been engaged as draftsmen, meatcutters, warehouse laborers, helicopter pilots and company guards...
Those selected (50 people to meet in the Eliot House Junior Common Room and ten more for dinner Nov. 6, plus ten for Quincy House lunch Nov. 7 and 50 for discussion) will be notified by mail. Their acceptances have to be in by Thursday, so that seconds can be invited if necessary...
...into tiny Moorish principalities. In the era typified by El Cid, the soldier of fortune who served both Moslems and Christians, chivalry became a warring way of life for Christians. Spanish knights or caballeros, often owning nothing but horse and armor, served to oust the Moors. Monks wore chain mail and were led by bishops wielding battle-axes. The conflict, for Christians, took on the character of a holy crusade, but it was warfare often punctured by periods of peace. Both Moor and Christian often found it more convenient to be brothers than enemies, and fast friendships often developed...