Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skeptical Mood. On Capitol Hill, opponents of ABM claimed last week that their mail was running heavily against Safeguard. There was a growing mood of skepticism about military spending in general, and a fear that the $7 billion ABM system might lead to further acceleration of the arms race...
...volunteers and part-time workers, that numbers around nine. While she does not exactly take this cushion for granted, she occasionally presumes on it. Her tendency to be unaware of how other people live makes her seem demanding at times. She can ask her women friends to help with mail or join in welcoming somebody home from Zambia and fail to understand why they cannot run right over. Yet, as those friends are quick to point out, she is never as demanding of others as she is of herself...
Ethel, three secretaries and three volunteers spend hours every day answering the mail that cascades into Hickory Hill at the rate of up to 100 letters a day. Most replies are typed on Ethel's black-bordered stationery, and she scrawls personal messages on many of them. Never, though, does she sign with the whimsical drawing of a pregnant woman that her acquaintances saw so often in the past. Nor does she send many more of her humorous telegrams and letters, even if her friends do. Her favorite valentine this year was Robert McNamara's?a picture of himself encircled...
...uniformed security guards patrol the building's hallways and entrances to keep away thieves and party crashers. Tom Shelley, the day desk captain in the cavernous, cathedral-like main lobby, has been described as "a college housemother" and "the equal of the concierge at the Ritz"; he forwards mail and halts newspaper deliveries for absent tenants, and he knows where to rustle up a singing waiter on short notice...
...latest communique from Peking. And few radical voices manage to convey this impassioned style better than Boston's Old Mole,*the small, revolutionary biweekly in Boston that published the confidential files "liberated" from Harvard's University Hall last week, under the triumphant headline "Reading the Mail of the Ruling Class." Some of these letters reveal close ties between Harvard faculty men and the CIA, the State Department and the Defense Department. Old Mole's comments on these documents and other issues are wildly oversimplified, deliberately provocative, and seeded with occasional grains of truth. Excerpts...