Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian listeners Fast's lengthy statement on why he was turning his back, not on the Russian people, but on their leaders and their form of government. "As I read it," he said, "the crowd hushed. Towards the end, however, when Fast told of his distress that mail from Soviet admirers was no longer reaching him, there was an outburst of indignation. Two young Muscovites said they had sent Fast a fan letter only recently. Obviously, the Soviet people are still writing to Fast, but their letters are being intercepted...
...federal bureaucracy as an ever-bearing hatchery, e.g., a burgeoning population (up 9% since 1952) and constant demands for more and more federal services. Last year the executive branch added 30,000 employees-the Post Office took on 12,611 new workers to handle the increasing torrent of mail; the Civil Aeronautics Administration had to cope with the swelling flow of air traffic; the Patent Office hired new employees to pare down the growing backlog of patent applications...
...recommendation on adult (over 21) homosexuality touched off the most violent reaction. "Bad, retrograde and utterly to be condemned," snapped Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. "Freeing adult males from any penalties could only succeed in intensifying and multiplying this form of depravity." Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail agreed: "Great nations have fallen and empires decayed because corruption became socially acceptable. [The proposals constitute] legalized degradation." "There's no knowing where it will end," complained a woman M.P., Mrs. Jean Mann, on television. "We may even have husbands enticed away from wives...
...pension rolls last month (with no retroactive pay). A businessman who filed a tax refund claim six years ago received the acknowledgment last week; he does not expect the refund for years. People who years ago ran two words together in telegrams find themselves summoned by registered mail, told to fill out forms and wait for hours to pay 3? for the extra word...
Outside Janssens' room are eight letter boxes, each containing the mail from the order's eight "assistancies." These letters, sometimes as many as 20,000 a day, are summarized paragraph by paragraph by secretaries, and annotated by the Assistant of the area involved before a final reply goes out. At 12:45, like every Jesuit throughout the world, Father Janssens does his 15-minute examination of conscience. After lunch, during which he sometimes waits on table for fellow Jesuits, he gets back to his desk. The day ends with a 10:15 visit to the chapel...