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...American dreams and the liberal imagination with a considered lack of seriousness. Little Big Man's Jack Crabb left a permanent brand on the founding myths of the Old West, and Neighbors contained a persuasive argument for living in the Yukon with an unlisted phone number and a mailbox stenciled THE LEPERS...
...from the procurator, which means he will be warned that criminal charges are pending. For now, the man widely considered the best writer of his generation in the Soviet Union can only sit and wait in his small apartment until a postman drops an official letter in his mailbox...
Elsewhere in the Massachusetts Hall mailbox lies a letter from the grandson of Paul Cabot Sr., '21, a former treasurer of the University, which asks Bok to allow a member team of the new United States Football League (USFL) to play at Soldiers Field this spring...
...recent weeks, telephone users in New York, California and Oregon have been getting some surprising flyers in the mail with their monthly bills. Soon customers in most other states will be going to the mailbox and finding the same. The inserts invite subscribers to buy their telephones from their local phone companies instead of renting them, as is now done. The invitations are part of an ongoing market shake-up in the increasingly deregulated U.S. telephone industry...
However, the line between negative advertising so blatant that it infuriates voters and slightly less ham-handed ads that impress them is elusive. In Texas, Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen won re-election with the aid of a TV ad that pictured a frail old woman walking to her mailbox, finding it empty and staring at the camera in despair, while a voice accused Bentsen's opponent James Collins of plotting to wreck Social Security. Though Collins once advocated making Social Security voluntary, he now insists that he is avid to preserve the system. In Pennsylvania, Democrat Peter Kostmayer...