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Short of staying off the streets, cutting off the newspaper, unplugging the radio, boycotting TV and locking the mailbox, the only way a Pennsylvanian can ignore this fall's cacophonous gubernatorial campaign is by clearing out of the state. In one of the nation's most flamboyant and free-spending races, Democrat Milton J. Shapp, 53, and Republican Lieutenant Governor Raymond P. Shafer, 49, by the morning of Nov. 8 will have lavished at least $3,600,000 on the cashkrieg campaign for the governorship...
...book, The Billion-Dollar Hangover, a report on alcoholism. Time evidently lay heavy on Coppolino's hands. His wife would leave the house in their blue Chevrolet every morning for her job in a Nutley laboratory. Coppolino, according to the watchful neighbors, would stroll out to his mailbox and then up the street to visit Marge Farber, whose husband had gone to work in a Manhattan insurance office. Then, on July 30, 1963, Farber died. The death certificate was signed by Carmela, who listed the cause as coronary thrombosis...
...sense of invasion is not necessarily physical. For every soliciting doorbell-ringer there is his counterpart on the telephone-and few Americans can resist the imperative of a ringing phone. The TV set is a chattering presence. The mailbox is constantly flooded by printed sales pitches. How did the catering service know that a family's daughter was getting married or that they had just bought their first...
...possible" around Harvard, at other colleges in the area, and in the art galleries and major museums of Boston. Ads have appeared in most of the Boston dailies and college newspapers, and spot announcements have been aired on local radio stations for the past week. In addition, nearly every mailbox at Harvard has been stuffed with one of a variety of mimeographed leaflets...
...story is told as a grab bag of gleanings from Teacher Barrett's mailbox, blackboard, wastebasket and students' schoolwork. Teachers chuckle in recognition at the memos Miss Barrett receives, such as one beginning: "Please disregard the following," and at the kids' comments, such as a boy's note explaining his failure to turn in homework: "My dog pead on it." Teachers everywhere seem to have kids as sniggery as those of Miss Barrett's, who is advised by a veteran teacher: "Never give a lesson on lie and lay" and never say "the word frigate...