Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Democrats in passing the necessary legislation for Kennedy's signature this week. Allied leaders wired their approval to the White House, and even such neutrals as India and Sweden had cautious praise. Newspapers across the land and in Western Europe approved of the statement with few qualifications; mail to the White House ran 100 to 1 in favor of the President in unprecedented quantities. Awakened to full understanding that the U.S. would go to war if all else failed, householders besieged their local civil defense headquarters, inquired about underground shelters; men volunleered for enlistment or recall with...
...just how such a deal could possibly benefit the U.S. But last week it seemed that the unsuccessful effort might show a curious profit after all. As a result of fund appeals by the Tractors for Freedom Committee, the Detroit post office was showered with 60,000 pieces of mail. When negotiations bogged down (TIME, June 30), the committee ordered the letters returned. So far, 56,000 that bore return addresses have been sent back unopened, and the committee will never know how much money it actually collected. The remaining letters have been sent to the dead letter office...
...Mood. Backed up by a tide of approving mail from across the nation, Mitchell was in no mood to back down. When Newburgh's own welfare director admitted that he, too, thought the code illegal, Mitchell and the city council forced his resignation, appointed a more pliable acting commissioner, ordered a departmental shakeup. Mitchell denounced investigating state-welfare officials as "Gestapo agents," and fortnight ago he put his code into effect. Last week he carried his fight to Washington, and waded deep into the choppy waters of Republican politics...
...Admiralty House, after 20 minutes with Yuri pronounced him "a delightful fellow." A 23-year-old British nurse ambushed Yuri as he emerged from the Russian embassy, flung her arms around his neck for a solid kiss, proclaimed him "the most kissable man in the universe." Headline the Daily Mail: MAKE HIM SIR YURI...
...stalls and bit players make it difficult to pay attention to their romance. The viewer's first thought as he leaves is not of the bittersweet ambience of love but of his wristwatch: Does he have time to reach American Express before it closes, to pick up his mail and get some more francs...