Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Europeans like to pat, pinch and pry before they buy, and find the prospect of haggling with a mail-order catalogue distressing. Yet lower prices, at-home convenience and prompt deliveries have won them over to U.S.-style mail-order retailing to a degree that seemed impossible only a few years ago. Largely responsible for this change of heart is West Germany's pioneering Die Quelle, a household word in Germany and Europe's biggest mailorder firm...
...committee let the men be executed and the wrath of the Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers descended upon Lowell with incredible force. Vituperations flowed to him through the mail and over the telephone; bomb threats came daily. Every year, as long as he lived, Lowell knew he could expect a new pile of abuse to arrive on August 23, the anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti...
Anti-Castro Cuban raiders nowadays buy their 2O-mm. cannons through the mail from Finland, make their dog tags on bus station souvenir coin machines. The raiders have largely deserted the Florida coast, and operate mainly from the Bahamas, escaping detection in the maze of 700 islands. Now and then one of their boats makes a dash for Cuba to drop off guns and supplies, shoot up a shore, maybe even fire at a Russian ship...
...Church Times, "that a bishop goes on public record as apparently denying almost every Christian doctrine of the church in which he holds office." The Manchester Guardian called it a "dangerous tract," suitable only for theologians to read, and in a front-page editorial, London's Daily Mail wondered "whether he should continue as a bishop...
Harvard officials did not become aware of the fraud, however, until February, when a probation notice sent to the student from the Freshman Dean's office was lost in the mails. The student was living off campus and had his mail delivered to a post-office box, registered in the false name...