Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...science, the gap between prophecy and fact has narrowed amazingly. The most remote-seeming theories are speedily turned into fact, at least in the lab. Hence the future often seems to arrive with the morning mail-and now, with a flick of the TV dial. A late-season sleeper called The 21st Century, narrated by Walter Cronkite (CBS, Sundays) is bringing forth little weekly chunks of the future as it exists today...
...necessarily safe either. Dr. Howard L. Bodily of the California State Department of Public Health pointed out that there is no federal law to prevent a doctor's signing up with a cut-rate laboratory thousands of miles away from his consulting room and sending his specimens by mail-regardless of the fact that delay may make many of them useless. Some mail-order laboratories have been caught sending out test "results" on specimens that they had never examined, even in such life-and-death matters as cancer smears...
Though they must make phone reservations, American commuters can side step most of the terminal rigmarole by using a supply of blank "Express Tickets," to be turned in on boarding and paid for later by mail...
...legal in most states, the notable exceptions include New York, Illinois and California, which contain the nation's largest, unsafest cities. New York City even bans water pistols loaded with an eye-stinging chemical like ammonia. Ironically, there is nothing to prevent the purchase of rifles by mail or even at the nearest sporting-goods store...
This year, for the first time, Radcliffe and many other women's colleges will mail letters of acceptance on April 15, the date when the Ivy League men's schools notify their applicants. In the past, Radcliffe has mailed its acceptances a week later than Harvard...