Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right that a great artiste should have to die for his music to be acknowledged?") The English have long proved that they can master American idioms, and Mayall is no exception. He can weep, holler and groan with the best, and though he pleads that his fan mail be sent to Godalming, Surrey, most listeners will wonder if it shouldn't go to Biloxi...
Half Alive. In many ways Saigon is only half alive. The public-transportation system operates only sporadically or, in some places, not at all. Mail has piled up undelivered in the post offices, weeks late. The city's hospitals are so crowded that only emergency cases are accepted, and even then the newcomer will probably have to share his bed with another patient or sleep on the floor. Coffins lie unburied for days because of a lack of gravediggers. Practically all the schools are still closed, and children either clog the streets while at play or are kept indoors...
...many have been disappointed A solid half of all the cards are marked "NA" by canvassers--"not available." Some of these people have received literature in the mail and some have been reached by phone, but to many canvassers the large number of "NA"s means that their work is largely insignificant. And the voting lists from which the names and addresses have been drawn have often been unreliable. Voters have moved, houses have been torn down, people have changed party affiliation. It is not unusual for a volunteer to come back with 40 cards, 25 of which are marked...
With mounting stridency, the British press has criticized the U.S. role in Viet Nam, portraying it as a misguided effort in a hopeless cause. But there has always been a minority of U.S. supporters, and one of them is Daily Mail Columnist Bernard Levin, an acid-tongued critic of everything from theater to world affairs...
With that, Levin sat back and braced for a flood of criticism. In fact, he received more mail on the column than on anything else he had written in his eleven years in journalism, but he found his 450 letters running 3 to 1 in support of his position. Last week he mused over the reaction in a column for the International Herald Tribune. "We can now firmly discount the myth that practically nobody in Britain understands and supports the American stand over Viet Nam," he wrote...