Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race tracks or 49 liquor stores, where, on payment of $3, a clerk activated a machine which exposed a ticket on which the bettor wrote his name and address. The machine thereupon swallowed the ticket and issued him an "acknowledgement," which presumably may be transported anywhere, sent through the mail, or even thrown away. The rolls of tickets were collected from the machines, microfilmed and stored in a bank vault...
...radio stations in 110 cities across the U.S. are broadcasting tapes taken from Shadow transcriptions of the '40s. Fan mail-from newly hooked kids as well as nostalgic oldtimers-is pouring in, and advertisers are asking for more...
...first Labor government in 13 years. Last week that outcome looked far less certain. Constitutionally, the elections must be held before Nov. 5 (likeliest dates: Oct. 15 or Oct. 22), and with only weeks to go, the polls show a drift away from Labor. One of them, the Daily Mail's National Opinion Poll, even reported Labor's lead down to a mere .6%, which in an election would actually result in a slim Conservative majority of 20 to 30 seats in the House of Commons...
...asleep. Ten minutes later, onetime Bookmaker Charles F. Wilson, 32, was free and away, leaving behind 29 years and eight months of a 30-year sentence. He was one of the twelve men jailed for the greatest cash theft of all time, the $7,369,000 robbery of a mail train a year ago. The Great Train Robbery was followed fittingly last week by the Great Jail Break, for it had all the qualities of the robbery-good intelligence work, the right equipment, a daring team to do the job, and a superb plan...
Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, 71, is lucky to be a Yankee: he comes from a state where the locals appreciate thrift. His mail clerk, Mrs. Judy Sherbert, spent a year winding the ties that bind the Senator's five daily postal consignments. Some folks might conceivably think her behavior a trifle odd, but not "Salty." He knows whereby hangs a tale to tell the voters of Massachusetts, so he called in photographers and bowled them over with Judy's 9¾-Ib. round of twine. "Let's get the ball rolling," he twanged...