Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Control Act that I authored was not as you characterize it, "an ineffective ban of some imports." It completely banned the sale of imports and of interstate mail-order guns. It also required registration of all future sales of firearms. In the first 28 months of its life, the cases made under the act increased 234.3%; the number of arrests increased 409.9%, including a number of "Presidential security risks" as identified by the U.S. Secret Service...
...Kinsley admits that, well, he did in fact turn into an Anglophile while he was at Oxford. He confides that he felt miserable the first six months--his room was eight flights up with no bath, the people seemed unfriendly and the weather was awful, and he flooded the mail with unhappy letters. But in the spring, he began to get used to it, and, as he puts it, "it really did it--I don't see how you can live in a country for two years without liking it eventually." The application process for the Rhodes is gruelling...
...leaves the family farm in Iowa to enroll in a Nevada college that promises to put the finishing touches on his art. Instead, the college puts them to Lewis. The entire faculty consists of two con men in the back room of a fleabag hotel, bilking suckers by mail. Fleeing this harsh reality, Lew is also accidently makes off with a strongbox full of several thousand dollars worth of tuition money bamboozled from the suckers of the nation's heartland. Wandering in the desert, lugging the strongbox, Lewis is suddenly set upon by . . . cowboys. Dreams do come true...
...yesterday's mail column, Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold criticized a story on his talk at Currier House written by Stephen J. Chapman (The Crimson, October 3). Rabbi Gold denied in the letter that he said he "would like to see Memorial Church administered by three different religious leaders." Below, Chapman replies...
...witnesses still clung to the notion of unaccountability. James J. Angleton, 57, had been chief of the CIA's counter-intelligence until he was pressured to retire last year because of his unyielding cold war stance. From 1955 to 1973, Angleton was in charge of the mail program. He told the committee that the operation was especially useful because the Soviets did not realize it was going on. Angleton refused to retract a statement he had made earlier in closed session: "It is inconceivable that a secret-intelligence arm of the Government has to comply with all the overt...