Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mail from Mafeking...
...drift and doubt. While everyone agrees that Wilson faces severe problems with Britain's low productivity, featherbedding unions and stodgy managements, a feeling persists that he has failed to come up with any grand plan that might produce a lasting solution. According to the London Daily Mail's latest poll, 80% of the electorate feels that the government is not doing well on the economic front. Wilson's own popularity has fallen to its lowest level since he took office. If elections were held today, so the polls say, the Tories would win by almost as huge...
Robbery. A team of German film makers recently stole a home-grown English property: The Great British Train Robbery (TIME, April 21), a plausibly clever re-creation of the 1963 heist of ?2,631,784 from a Royal Mail train. In Robbery, the Limeys have tried to recapture the story for their own, using the talents of Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet and a regiment of able character actors, and the cinema verite style of Director Peter Yates. The result, unfortunately, is a hot property gone tepid with time...
...Serios is a charlatan or a genuine psychic we cannot say. We can only state that whe arrived in Denver profoundly skeptical about his ability to produce what Dr. Eisenbud claims in his book--and left even more skeptical." (Compose for tone with the report of the London Daily Mail Commission for the study of spirit photography, July 16th, 1909: "We are therefore of the opinion that no evidence whatever--experimental or otherwise--has been placed before the committee in support of the contention to investigate which the committee was formed.") In addition to issuing a challenge to Serios...
...equally clear that all four improved in the second semester and assumed they would be commissioned. Instead, in the middle of final exams, Pell and his three-man board of staffers (who are directly responsible to him and dependent on his evaluations for advancement) informed the students by mail that they would not be commisioned. The students were given no opportunity to appear before the board or Pell, and he refused to inform them of their appeal rights above himself...