Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans have a right to the unimpeded mail delivery of foreign Communist publications? Yes, said the Supreme Court last week in the first decision voiding an Act of Congress on the ground that it violated the First Amendment right of free speech...
...Government discontinued its 13-year censorship of such mail. "It serves no useful intelligence function," said President Kennedy. Congress, how ever, was not convinced. In 1962 it passed a law requiring the Post Office to hold all incoming "Communist politi cal propaganda" for 20 days, then de stroy it unless the addressee returned a card saying he wanted it. Respectable critics began to note an obvious dan ger: Post Office lists of "approved" addressees might well result in the hounding of innocent individuals, such as scholars and journalists...
...vote of 8 to 0, the Supreme Court last week upheld both Lamont and Heilberg. "We rest on the narrow ground that the addressee in order to receive his mail must request in writing that it be delivered," said Justice William O. Douglas. "This amounts in our judgment to an unconstitutional abridgment of the addressee's First Amendment rights." In short, he may be embarrassed or harassed, just because he likes to read things that upset other people. The deficit-ridden Post Office is hardly dismayed. By quitting the censorship business, it can now save $250,-000 a year...
...Boston record-American reports this morning that postal authorities allegedly found a list in Miss Ryserson's Rochester apartment which apartment which, the paper says, contains names of college students in the Greater Boston area who might have received marijuana through the mail from de Lissovoy and Miss Ryerson...
Quick Eye. Lady Bird was handed the letter along with several other pieces of mail, while switching planes at Washington's National Airport. After shuffling through the papers, she handed them over to a Democratic Party campaign worker, asking her to decline Jackie's invitation because she had to be in Baltimore with Lyndon the night of the debate...