Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roll-call vote, the Council waived a provision in state law that requires it to mail notices of a referendum to all registered voters at least seven days before an election. The waiver, which followed a brief hearing, spared the City the problem of finding $5000 and enough clerical help to dispatch nearly 47,000 pieces of first-class mail...
Although neither Walter J. Sullivan nor Alfred E. Vellucci explained his opposition to the waiver, both councillors apparently doubted Thomas J. Hartnett, executive secretary of the Board of Election Commissioners, who said most people simply ingored official mail. Hartnett told the Council he planned to publicize the referendum through posters and newspaper advertisements...
...Butler was favored by 40% of Tory voters questioned in a Daily Mail snap poll-second-running Hailsham got 35%-and bookies' odds were 6 to 4 that he would get the job. As Acting Prime Minister, Butler won from grudging colleagues and rivals the initial advantage of giving the windup speech in Macmillan's place. But on the whole, it was a strangely lackluster performance. Capitalizing on the test ban treaty, the one clear triumph for the government in a year of frustration, Butler pledged that Britain would press its allies to "keep up the momentum...
...must to all new Cabinet mem bers, a press conference came last week to Postmaster General John Gronouski. He showed himself to be an amiable fellow with a ready wit. Asked what he thought of third-class mail, he replied: "It doesn't send me most of the time." Gronouski, it turned out, was just trying to be funny, but soon the Post Office Department was swamped with protests. Gronouski was taken into a huddle by his public relations adviser, and his sense of humor has now been stamped HANDLE WITH CARE...
...Garrett Corp., a California maker of environmental control systems for jet planes and space capsules. Anxious to keep Garrett both thriving and informal, Bellande has led the fight against a takeover by ailing Curtiss-Wright, which has sought to buy 47% of Garrett's stock. A onetime barnstormer, mail pilot and test pilot who was Charles Lindbergh's copilot on one of the first transcontinental passenger runs in 1929, Bellande now restricts his piloting to the company Convair. Behind his desk, on which sits a dime-store statuette of a hula dancer, Garrett...