Word: mailings
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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage. This is the actual weight of a ship at a given time, empty or otherwise. The displacement tonnage of a ship increases according to the weight of fuel, passengers, mail or freight with which it is burdened...
...have been reading the stories about the "peace march" by Harvard students with considerable sympathy for the underlying concerns which this demonstration was intended to express. Yesterday, however, I received in the mail a brochure, "Student Action for a Turn Toward Peace," which sets out in detail the policies which were pressed on the Government by the demonstrators, and I must say I was shocked and depressed by the irresponsibility and extremism of this document...
Like his strip then, Feiffer avoids sloganeering; but sometimes he can't help rephrasing a familiar homily. Once, after making a too-transparent reference to Operation Abolition he received a record quantity of adverse mail. To one woman, who had written "I can't decide whether you're a pinko or a yellowo," Feiffer replied, "Better yellow than Jello...
Nonetheless, Congressional spokesmen admitted that even mass action such as Project Washington stands little chance of seriously influencing Congressional thought. "If they could prove they represented an overwhelming majority," one legislative aide commented, "then we might be swayed." A check of offices on the Hill revealed that mail is generally running heavily in favor of resumed testing. Several aides pointed out that the Project would gain in influence if it could affect the mail ratio...
...Uelses, 24, was a virtual unknown-he had never cleared 15 ft.-when he showed up for last year's big winter meets. This year he is being courted by colleges (he gets out of the Marines next month), pursued by promoters, haunted by autograph hounds. His fan mail"runs to 300 letters a week. When he holds a press conference, his commanding general personally issues the invitations. But Uelses is a controversial champion. "I'm antagonistic as hell,'' snorted ex-Record Holder Bragg last week. "Uelses isn't a great vaulter...