Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeal is not entirely limited to the lower middle class, however. Wallace draws some support from propertied and professional people. Most of his contributions, officially estimated at $70,000 a day, come in small bills at rallies, at $25-a-plate dinners, and in checks through the mail. Affluent backers pay $500 and up to join Wallace "Patriots' Clubs" and lunch with the candidate when he comes to town. In Dallas last month, Wallace dined with such "plain folk" as Mrs. Nelson Bunker Hunt, daughter-in-law of Oil Billionaire H. L. Hunt; Paul Pewitt, who has a $100 million...
...Lampoon done? It has published a periodical which includes a couple of decent jokes, a shelf full of bad ones carved out of overworked motifs, a bunch of color photographs taken by the same guys who take pictures for Life, and five pages of Life advertising plus a mail-in Life subscription card...
Free Meals. The show is a hit. "We get blizzards of mail," says Prison War den Wayne Patterson. "There's no short age of speaking invitations." So enthusiastic is the public that Denver area Kiwanians recently raised $4,000 to provide the convicts with two station wagons. Some restaurants give them free meals, and a motel in Denver lets them stay overnight for nothing...
...returned to his desk in the back row of the Senate. Teddy Kennedy came back at a poignant and appropriate moment. After the gunshot killings of Bobby and Martin Luther King, the Johnson Administration drew up gun-control legislation that went considerably beyond an earlier law that forbade the mail-order sale of revolvers and automatics. Chin cradled in hand, Ted Kennedy last week watched the Senate debate that measure...
...overwhelming 70 to 17. Aimed chiefly at helping the states enforce their own firearms-control laws by severely restricting the mailorder traffic in rifles, shotguns and ammunition, the law would make it impossible to order long guns-as did Lee Harvey Oswald-from an out-of-state gun mail-order house. Even within his own state, the buyer who orders a gun by mail will have to wait at least one week before the dealer ships the weapon. Similarly, when the gun buyer goes to an adjoining state to purchase a gun over the counter, he must wait a week...