Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showered it with lucre. All told, HUD gave ABAC $1,080,000, sending checks in plain brown envelopes without prior notice, according to Truax's boss, ABAG Executive Director Warren Schmidt. For the past 13 months, Truax apparently had been treating the brown-paper bonanza as personal mail. Investigators said that he had deposited the checks-including one for $399,649-in bank accounts under various names. In Las Vegas, he was known as Troy Thompson and carried a California driver's license in that name...
...feelings this time drew wide national support. Immigrants from the Commonwealth-mostly Pakistanis, Indians and West Indians-are pouring into Britain in such large numbers that Britain's white population, including the large population of Irish immigrants, is both alarmed and seething with resentment. Warned the London Daily Mail: "The horrors of the riots in Newark and Detroit may seem remote, but all the causes have already taken root here...
...drive will continue to accept contributions through Monday because, Warner, explained, "some people haven't been contacted." The drive solicited from Dudley House by 'mail, so these contributions are coming in slowly, he added...
...house at 30 Francis Ave., Harvard's faculty row. (Among his neighbors: Urbanologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan and TV Chef Julia Child.) By his own stern command, he is never interrupted. Tuesdays and Thursdays he has noon lecture classes, Tuesday evenings a seminar. Afternoons, he receives visitors, counsels students, answers mail, and reads. He is a Trollope addict?"Trollope tells a story as it should be told, lots of nourishment and no nonsense"?and finds a few minutes' perusal of Jane Austen's easy "rhythm" just right to prime his own writing pump. Like Trollope, he believes that "writing...
Many aren't even opposed to the war. Service was a hurdle that Montreal got them around. "What the hell," said one nineteen-year-old from the Bronx, "I got my notice one day in the mail and went to a bar to have a drink before I went. There was a guy there just back from Vietnam: two wooden arms, two wooden legs, and no disability payments. 'What's in it for me?' I said to myself and caught the next bus for here. I would have gone except Canada's where it's at and the Army wasn...