Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crime for a married couple to receive nude photographs of themselves in the U.S. mail? Last week that question got the Supreme Court involved in one of its oddest obscenity decisions...
...Arnold lives the life of a gentleman farmer on his 107-acre spread outside Nashville. He performs one week out of the month, spends most of the rest of his time answering the 200 pieces of fan mail he gets every week. With an annual income of more than $200,000, he tried his hand at investing, succeeded so well that he now sits on the boards of three companies, owns or has interests in an auto agency, a music-publishing house, a ranch, a record-pressing firm, a water utility, a realty company, and a 400-unit apartment house...
...report stirred much double-edged comment, such as the Daily Mail's observation, entitled "An End to Dreaming," that the report was "nicely balanced between recommending radical changes and preserving traditional values. The sooner its proposals are put into force the better." A critique more likely to keep Oxford in the front ranks of such world pacesetters as Harvard and Berkeley could probably come only from a commission outside Oxford's own establishment. Philosopher Franks' report did not seem frank enough...
...amazed that you believe only two pioneers remain active. Without downgrading Trippe and Smith, how about Collett Everman Woolman, who at 76 is still sole boss of Delta Airlines, seventh-largest airline in the world? Woolman pioneered crop dusting in 1925 and inaugurated the first mail-passenger airline on the West Coast of South America in 1928 (this line became Panagra). President of Delta since its founding in 1929, Woolman takes second place to no one for continued, consistent airline management, and he is not about to retire...
...about mergers, he talks to himself. He is at the same time chairman of San Francisco's Natomas Co., a holding company that owns 39% of the Pacific Far East Lines as well as 54% of American President Lines. A.P.L., in turn, owns 93% of Seattle-based American Mail Lines. Last week, having mulled over the idea for two years, he moved to bring the three lines' 47 ships together under the A.P.L. house flag. "We can make several million dollars more in a consolidated operation," he explained. "It is one of those cases where...