Word: mail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Don Iddon, 66, Britain's sassy U.S.-based columnist who for 22 years interpreted America's wiles, whims and gossip in the London Daily Mail and papers on five continents; of a heart attack; in New York City. By depicting America as a "Rainbow Land" filled with steak-chomping faddists and wastrels, the bumptious Iddon ("Let's face it, I'm a terrific egotist") delighted his readers and confirmed their preconceived notions of primitive Yankee ways...
...there is an Old Testament harshness to the Rebekah regime. The windows have alarms. The rooms are bugged, and the girls are kept under constant surveillance. Mail is censored. Errant inmates are given "licks" with wooden paddles; serious offenders, like those who try to run away, are tied up or put in solitary confinement "lockups" for days. "We're not dealing with kids who got caught fooling around in church choir practice, you know," says Roloff...
...wrote letters for illiterate inmates and designed stationery for others, decorating the letterheads with hands clasped in prayer. "If I ever get out of here," he said at one point, "I'll do God's work." He occupied much of each day answering his mail, inscribing envelopes with the message: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT MEANS THOSE WITHOUT CAPITAL GET THE PUNISHMENT. Twice a week he was visited by a girlfriend, divorcee Carla...
...archetypal awfulness of vacation car treks along the New Jersey Turnpike. Now and then he rules out a topic for a while because he is tired of it or thinks readers are. Just now he is avoiding women's liberation, although its solemnities are "a gold mine," because the mail he receives when he mentions the subject is abusive...
Will you be the kind of doctor who cares more about the case than the person? ("Nurse, call the gastric ulcer and have him come in at three.") You'll know you're in trouble if you find yourself wishing they would mail in their liver in a plain brown envelope...