Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central Russian town 'of Rylsk. Though Fedor Kuznetsov had lived in Rylsk for 30 years, he was oddly asocial. His house was surrounded by a high board fence; in the evenings, music blared inexplicably from loudspeakers on the lawn. He never entertained, made the postman put the mail through a slit in the fence. Until he retired five years ago, Kuznetsov worked as a valenki (felt boots) maker in a commune, dutifully handed in his monthly norm of 15 pairs of valenki per month. For some reason, he insisted on doing all his work at home...
...promise. Horrified to discover that British intelligence had got onto the Lonsdale ring only by a series of accidents, the London Daily Express wondered "in the months and years before, how much vital information reached the Russians through the flagrant folly and incompetence of naval intelligence?" Mourned the Daily Mail: "The vision of an alert, unsleeping corps of first-class brains keeping watch and ward has taken another blow...
Such has been the reaction to the press conferences that United Press International's Merriman Smith recently took public notice of heavy mail complaining about press-conference newsmen being rowdy, disrespectful and unkempt. Smith's defense: The fault really lies with the "shotgun mikes," which "have to sweep over a wide-and noisy-section of reporters before settling on the one recognized by the President." Last week, New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, with whimsical tone but considerable feeling, divided the blame between the President and the press. "The President," wrote Reston, "is the chief spokesman...
...lifeguard to watch over them. He likes to watch himself on one of his six TV sets, greets his twice-weekly taped appearance with "There's the monster." After a scant breakfast. Moran drives to his office in his four-door hardtop Ford Galaxie. riffles through the mail on his 12-ft. desk, then begins his daily tour of his auto empire. He pops into the new-car showroom, opening new-car doors to make sure the interior is clean, checks to see how sales are going. In the service department, he leafs through service orders...
...principle, one who would not knuckle under to official pressure, especially on his first day in office. Moreover, the attempted suppression of the film is completely out of line with other recent Administration decisions. Only last week the President abandoned the silly (and perhaps unconstitutional) program of intercepting mail entering the country from behind the Iron Curtain...