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...plane SR-71 with its filming equipment can cover more than 150 sq. mi. so precisely as to locate a mailbox on a country road, I think the postal service should be given a chance to have a look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1978 | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

Just yesterday, in fact (funny how these coincidences work) I received a letter in my mailbox to that same effect. Excerpts read as follows...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Snoway to Go: This Was the Week That Wasn't | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

...blip moving across the radar scope; Blackbird was photographing the whole show. The plane carries high-powered cameras that can map most of the U.S. in three passes, as well as three-dimensional filming equipment that can cover more than 150 sq. mi. so precisely as to locate a mailbox on a country road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Motto Is: Think Big, Think Dirty | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...entire body. I feel like I'm living the joke." And killing his audiences. Martin says he is looking for "cat handcuffs." His tabby-a tiger-stripe he calls Dr. Carleton P. Forbes-has amassed $3,000 worth of "cat toys" by filching checks from Steve's mailbox. But alas, Dr. Forbes has escaped ... to Catalina. On a catamaran. Audiences invariably groan as this inventive tale turns into mushy vaudeville. Wide-eyed pause. "You think comedy is ... pretty?" leers Martin. He catches them catnapping every time. As a youngster in Southern California, Steve used to bike over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Comedians | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...past to the extent that the former tribal council president wrote a bitter and a somewhat hysterical letter to the Vineyard Gazette, the leading newspaper of Martha's Vineyard, accusing the present tribal leaders of placing a deer head with a knife in its throat in her mailbox. The leaders' response in the newspaper ignored the accusations but leaders subsequently hinted that the former president put the deer head in the mailbox herself...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Whose Vineyard? | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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