Word: mail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some TIME readers are sentimental and send us cards at Christmas. A few are even smitten enough to mail valentines to their favorite writers. But Donald Lehnus, an associate professor of library science, recently set an epistolary precedent. Quite unsolicited, he mailed us his 156-page computer analysis of 2,814 TIME cover subjects from 1923 to 1977, a scholarly study chockablock with statistical tables and chronological comparisons...
...addition, some banks are mailing "preapproved" card applications to potential customers who are rated good risks. They do not have to provide lengthy statements citing credit references and salary, but merely mail back a short, signed form. Over the past 18 months, Chicago's Continental Illinois bank has acquired enough new preapproved Master Charge customers to make it one of the top ten U.S. card issuers...
...labor, capital and energy. Searching for ways to do so, Grayson, 54, a hyperproductive fellow who gets up at 4:30 a.m., started the nonprofit American Productivity Center at Houston. In all, 125 companies have kicked in their support, and every time Grayson gets a check in the mail, he gleefully clangs a bronze bell hanging in his office. At their center, which has few walls and many open doors, he and a small staff try to discover what ails American productivity...
...sometimes spends all morning on a single entry, other times she does noth ing for a week. Her husband Bill, a retired quality-control inspector whom she married in 1937, works continuously too, driving to the post office to mail entries (she won't risk the mail box) and buy stamps. He scouts around for precious entry blanks, but higher postal costs have forced Mrs. Haley to cut back on the number of entries she sends...
...sister Bobbie, now the pianist in his band, were raised by gospel-singing grandparents; their parents had drifted off in opposite directions shortly after Willie was born. Willie was five when he got a guitar and a few rudimentary lessons from his grandfather, a blacksmith who had taken mail-order music courses. Soon Willie was pressing his ear against an old wooden Philco radio to hear Grand Ole Opry. At 13 he formed his own band-with his father, then living in a town 40 miles away, on fiddle. He left high school at 16, was mustered...