Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After reading your review of Max Gunther's The Weekenders [May 22], I feel compelled to tell Gunther that all is not lost! Why, our weekends are filled with meaningful things like hanging clothes, doing dishes, writing reports, mowing lawns, changing diapers, answering mail, hollering at children, pulling weeds, charcoaling hamburgers, dashing to church and watching TV (with snide comments, so people will know we're really too intelligent for TV). If Mr. Gunther knows of any place here in Ohio where some of that deplorable sin and dreary, hollow fun is going on, could he please...
...Gems by Mail. Demand for diamonds has overrun the supply in the last few years, largely because producers do not want to exhaust their uncertain sources at the mines, and dealers like to keep the prices in the way-up-there brackets. Last week South Africa's De Beers Consolidated Mines-which markets 80% of the world's diamonds and sells only when, where, and to whom it deigns-announced that stocks were little more than half as high as a year ago. There have been two wholesale-price increases, totaling 15%, in the past 15 months. Jewelers...
...embraces in the Bell System. He also takes time out from each busy day to study stacks of mail from customers and stockholders on the the ory that "it's a good way to get a feel for what people are thinking," has ordered that every letter must be answered within seven days...
...extremely embarrassing, as a few bold voices noted as soon as the mocking laughter died. "For verbose irrelevance," said the Johannesburg Star, "the Press Commission's report has no equal in South Africa, and probably few equals anywhere." Observed the Rand Daily Mail, another English-language daily: "This report, read as it stands, will do more damage to South Africa's reputation overseas than 500 of the press messages which it condemns so vigorously." The only foe of apartheid in Parliament added what could serve handsomely as the last word. Said Mrs. Helen Suzman, member for the country...
...post office employee came out with two huge mail bags and waited as demonstration leaders held the mailbox open for the letters to the President. An elderly woman stepped out of line and wrote a postcard as her friend dictated from hers: "Dear President Johnson, Support federal force in Mississippi. Congratulations on your stand thus...