Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bane of every newsman's existence is the publicity handout. In a never-ending stream, handouts arrive in the morning mail to proclaim that Consolidated Everything has just named Jim Jutjaw as the new vice president in charge of personal advancement; or that Sandi Starlet's high-rise bust does not keep her from reading on her back; or that Senator Somnolence has forthrightly called for further discussion...
With few exceptions, the self-seeking blurbs are quickly ripped open and then ripped up. But even that takes time, complained Miami Publisher Jay Morton of the weekly Florida Business Leader. After analyzing his daily 41-ft. pile of junk mail, Morton decided to take Draconian measures. By registered letter, he informed 35 of the most constant offenders (none of whom ever took ads) that in the future he would regard any handout as an ad-insertion order, which he would automatically print at a charge of $2.50 per column inch...
...nation's earliest days, the gun has been the delight of collectors and sportsmen. Today, the U.S. has the world's largest civilian cache: some 100 million handguns, rifles and shotguns in private hands. Every year, more than 1,000,000 "dangerous weapons" are sold by mail order in the U.S., and another million or so imported...
...Austin slaughter breathed new life into a bill now before Congress, sponsored by Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd, which would 1) severely limit interstate mail-order handgun shipments; 2) limit the inflow of military-surplus firearms from abroad; 3) ban over-the-counter handgun sales to out-of-state buyers and anybody under 21; and 4) prohibit longarm sales to persons under 18. Invoking the "shocking tragedy" in Austin, President Johnson urged speedy passage "to help prevent the wrong persons from obtaining firearms." Of course, recognizing the "wrong person" is not always possible; Whitman would probably have qualified...
...returning from Viet Nam on combat leave found themselves stranded for up to 72 hours at Travis Air Force Base. As many as 100 at a time curled up to sleep on sofas or in makeshift barracks while they waited for hitchhikes aboard military planes passing through the base. Mail deliveries that normally move by air were slowed; shipments of everything from electronic equipment to exotic flowers were delayed for lack of air cargo space. Businessmen hitched rides on one another's corporate aircraft, demand for car rentals soared, and so did telephone bills, as executives settled for conference...