Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Royal Canadian Mint had never seen anything like this. On Jan. 2, post-office trucks rolled up to Ottawa's turreted mint building with 125 bags containing nearly 2,000,000 pleading letters. Within a week the mail reached 6,000,000 letters. And who was doing most of the writing? U.S. coin collectors...
Many a U.S. editor may quarrel with such criticism, but it comes from a man who has more than earned the right to make it. As editor of the Rand* Daily Mail in Johannesburg, Laurence Gandar, 49, has persistently assailed his country's race policies with the dedication and energy that he finds lacking in U.S. newspapers...
South Africa's government gets such criticism in the entire English-language press, but nowhere with more unremitting vehemence than in Gandar's Mail. Why Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd permits it is one of the unexplained mysteries of an otherwise intolerant land. He has the power to silence his critics, or at least to command the sort of subservience he gets from the country's Afrikaans press. But Verwoerd must also be aware that his country's English-language papers outcirculate its Afrikaans papers by 5 to 1-clear evidence of the reading preference of South...
Steady Harassment. If and when Verwoerd's patience ever runs out, his first target for vengeful action is very likely to be Gandar of the Mail. Born in the sea resort of Durban, on South Africa's east coast, Gandar chose a journalism career after leaving the University of Natal. But he made no particular mark until the businessmen who own the Rand Daily Mail hired him in 1957 to succeed the paper's departing editor...
From that position, Gandar has since led a relentless crusade against Verwoerd's government. In the elections of 1961, the Mail was the only big newspaper to pledge undiluted support to South Africa's new, anti-Verwoerd, Progressive Party. "Immensely heartening," said Gandar, after the Progressives succeeded in sending a single candidate, Mrs. Helen Suzman, to Parliament...