Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the Christmas holiday season several years ago, Soviet Russia held up the entry visas for diplomatic couriers bringing mail pouches to the U.S. embassy in Moscow. As a result, the Christmas mail came in weeks late. The next time Soviet couriers were to be dispatched, the U.S. was equally slow about their visas. Thereafter there was no more trouble about American couriers entering Moscow...
Tinker's article drew more mail than anything Maclean's has published in years. Surprisingly, half the letters agreed with Tinker in deploring the growth of such carping anti-Americanism. More support for Tinker came last week in a guest editorial written for Maclean's by Author Hugh (The Precipice) MacLennan. "Mr. Tinker has hit nearly all of us where it hurts," MacLennan wrote. "We're chagrined and a little ashamed of ourselves...
...adults, although all have jobs at a higher level than the general population, too many are working at jobs (e.g., machine operator, mail carrier, freight handler) that do not utilize their full abilities...
...columns and in ads in British and U.S. dailies, Canada's biggest and most influential morning newspaper this week announced that it is for sale. The Toronto Globe & Mail (circ. 236,593), which many newsmen consider the New York Times of Canada, will be sold to a "responsible" bidder by the estates of George McCullagh and William H. Wright. Already mentioned as possible buyers: Roy H. Thomson, Canada's biggest newspaper publisher (TIME, Sept. 14, 1953), and Texas Millionaire Clint Murchison, whose property includes half interest in the big Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd. Estimated minimum acceptable price...
Filmed at Princeton, at the Institute for Advanced Study, where Oppenheimer presides as director, the show was a 30-minute digest of a 2½-hour interview. When the show went on the air the CBS switchboard at first received a "few calls of protest." Since then, the mail received at both CBS and Princeton has been heavily in Oppenheimer's favor, and Murrow reports that an additional hour-long film of the interview is being prepared for release to colleges. It will be financed by the Fund for the Republic, a division of the Ford Foundation...