Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a three-hour-20-minute oration. It was a mere trumpet flourish compared to some buncombe spectaculars of the past.* Under Mansfield's gentlemanly ground rules, of course, this was more like featherbedding than filibustering. Dirksen read newspaper editorials, won permission to have sacks of anti-repeal mail brought into the chamber, told Dirksenesque jokes to his colleagues. "I am sure the Senator has heard about the schoolteacher who said, 'Johnny, how do you spell straight?' Johnny replied, 'S-t-r-a-i-g-h-t.' The teacher said, 'What does that mean...
Never So Poor. Bhutto's people in the Foreign Ministry seem to be sponsoring a pinprick campaign to pester Americans. U.S. embassy mail has been held up repeatedly, and during last month's warfare embassy chauffeurs fetching officials from their homes late at night were frequently arrested and manhandled-which could only happen with the concurrence of the government...
Only a few years ago, requiems were being performed over the retail book trade in the U.S. Time-consuming TV and the faster pace of modern life, feared the booksellers, would pre-empt serious reading. The book clubs with their vast mail-order lists and, most of all, the price-cutting discount houses were challenging the conventional bookstore. Leonard Schwartz, president of Manhattan-based Brentano's, predicted that many booksellers would not survive discounting...
With an eight-year jail term for jury-tampering hanging over him (plus a five-year term for a mail fraud and conspiracy conviction), Jimmy Hoffa has recently been as nervous as a truck driver at a tea party. In an effort to avoid the clink, he is using the charges of prostitution and prejudice in asking that a new trial be granted in the jury-tampering conviction-the third such request since Hoffa was convicted*-and that the judge disqualify himself from further involvement in the case...
Gartland also announced that the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats next week will address and mail 50,000 letters supporting his and King's election...