Word: mail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Plainly, the pressures on Lance from politicians, press and business were not subsiding as quickly as the White House once hoped they would. If anything, they were intensifying. White House mail was running 2 to 1 against Lance. Various bankers challenged his claim that some $450,000 in overdrafts amassed by him and his relatives from Calhoun First National Bank, of which he was president, was "typical of Southern banking practices." Said a spokesman for the Amercan Bankers Association: "We don't see that as normal or typical, whether it's Southern or Northern or whatever." The President...
...when the treaty is signed at the Pan American Union building in Washington. On hand will be 15 heads of state from Latin America, the largest gathering of its kind in the hemisphere since 1967. Whether this televised inter-American consensus will prove effective is another matter. White House mail is running 8 to 1 against the treaty. Administration head counters claim that 58 Senators are already willing to vote in favor of the pact; only nine more would give Carter the two-thirds approval he needs, but they may prove hard to get. Opponents, meanwhile, talk of stalling...
...crime while in office.* Barring a successful appeal, he will have to move out of the mansion and leave office by Oct. 7, the date set for his sentencing (the maximum possible punishment: 105 years in prison and a fine of $42,000) on 17 counts of mail fraud and one count of racketeering...
...measures a foot in height, grows wild in a large area reaching eastward from the Ozarks and is cultivated commercially. The mature root, usually four inches long, weighs less than an ounce. Diggers send the roots to a handful of dealers, like Willard Magee in Eolia, Mo.; he will mail back a check based on wholesale prices (currently $95 to $110 per lb. for wild and $45 to $50 for cultivated). Though wild ginseng accounts for only 26% of U.S. production, it commands much higher prices than the cultivated variety because it is thought to be more potent...
...estimated $5 million, the prodigal-along with his former New York designer Milton Glaser and Publisher Vere Harmsworth's Associated Newspapers Group Ltd. (London's Daily Mail, Evening News and 42 smaller British papers) -will buy the 44-year-old monthly from its highly diversified parent, Esquire Inc. Glaser will become design director, Felker editor in chief as well as the chief executive of the magazine company; Harmsworth will be chairman...