Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...punished by two years in prison and a $5,000 fine, v. one year in prison and a $1,000 fine at present. For the narcotics addict who peddles dope mainly to finance his habit, a civil commitment statute under preparation would provide for rehabilitation rather than incarceration. - Halt mail-order sales of firearms to individuals (Lee Harvey Oswald got his assassination weapon through a mail-order house) and restrict the importation of surplus military weapons. - Provide for increased training of local officers by federal law-enforcement agencies and finance research on improved justice and law enforcement on the local...
...exploits of London's elusive eagle made headlines for twelve solid days in an extraordinary national preoccupation with what the Daily Mail called "the most celebrated eagle of his day." Britons sent in dozens of suggestions for recapturing Goldie: someone urged that he be brought to earth with a tranquilizing dart; another thought up an elaborate scheme to float a balloon filled with anesthetic gas and baited with thin pieces of meat so that the eagle's talons would prick the bubble, causing a knockout drop. Still others saw a profit in Goldie's exploits. Britain...
...himself be quietly seized by the legs and returned to his cage, where his mate Regina awaited. "It's good to have him back," said a zoo official. "He is used to people and good square meals." Many a Londoner would take wistful exception. As the Daily Mail put it, Goldie "is the flying symbol of all men lost in urban civilization." Added the Daily Telegraph's editorial page: "Perhaps we are all mirrored in the behavior of Goldie, victims of the welfare state, tending to lose our self-reliance and mobility...
...Memo. The charge came about in a curious way. The committee was taking testimony about how the U.S. Post Office Department two years ago put a watch on the mail of an old Kennedy foe, New York Attorney Roy Cohn, then under federal indictment for perjury (he was later acquitted). A Cohn lawyer told the committee that in connection with that case he had subpoenaed the LIFE file on a 1963 story about Cohn. Somehow, in the midst of that file was a confidential memo written by LIFE'S then Washington bureau chief, reporting that he had received...
...MAIL ORDER AT CORNELL, said a headline in the New York Herald Tribune last week. Behind such sensational stories lies a somewhat less sensational situation. In this case, Cornell Coed Susan Heiberger, 21, was accused of buying a $5 bag of marijuana from Philip Cook, 25, who had quit Cornell in January, and of mailing some of the stuff on to a hometown friend at Connecticut College. A grand jury charged Miss Heiberger and Cook with selling marijuana, a felony, but they were allowed to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges...