Word: mail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front-page column devoted to Charles in the London Sunday Times. Because the prince had once complained that newspapers tend to dwell on things that go wrong, the Times printed nothing but the week's good news. Among the tidings of cheer: 92% of first-class mail was delivered on time, and no banks collapsed. "P.S." added the Times. "The death rate from suicide is going down...
...craving for standards of social behavior is obvious in the sheer heft of mail to advice columnists and in the success of table-manner classes for children in 800 department stores around the nation. Enrollment...
...champions of an old idea: mail order...
...monthlong countdown to Christmas that begins every year after Thanksgiving, it can be downright agony for some people. Parking is a pain, stores are crowded, and sales clerks are often inexperienced or hard to find. One result has been a burst of new activity in an old idea: mail order. Not since Chicago Merchant Aaron Montgomery Ward put out his first "catalogue"-a one-page number flogging bed ticking, hoop skirts and $8 ladies' watches-almost a century ago has there been such high interest in ways of shopping without stores...
Charles Diggs, for 24 years a Congressman from Detroit, and a founder of the House's black caucus, was convicted last month on 29 counts of mail fraud and misappropriation of Government funds. Though eleven of the twelve jurors who convicted him were black, Diggs implied to his constituents that he was being persecuted by white justice. Last week he was re-elected with 80% of the vote...