Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consultations in Lisbon, he left behind a torn and bleeding land. Fighting among rival liberation movements engulfed the last of Portugal's African territories and posed the prospect of a Nov. 11 changeover that will be anything but orderly. Said a bitter Silva Cardoso: "Perhaps they can just mail the flag to Lisbon...
...roster of complaints ranges from the trivial to the relatively serious: hotels on the road are rarely good enough; instead of charter flights after night games, players often have to grouse their way onto morning flights on scheduled airlines; no stamps are supplied for answering fan mail; torn pants and two-year-old shirts are handed out in the clubhouse; and there is no free telephone in the clubhouse for local calls. "The problem is simple," says one player. "Charlie Finley is the cheapest son of a bitch in baseball...
...gamblers could call. We stay in the same hotels as other teams. I'm not paying $5,000 extra for a charter flight when the team is already going first class. If they want stamps, they can have as many as they need if they'll bring the mail up to the office. I know one thing. They're so selfish and lazy they won't answer any fan mail. Hell, there'll be so few letters, I'll lick 'em myself...
...winter, it is snowballs. Last month it was firecrackers. Now is the season of bees, wasps and gypsy moths. Indeed, U.S. mail carriers are used to finding all manner of surprises in the 25 million home mailboxes that line America's roads. But whether citizens leave a week-old baby boy (as once happened) or a cup of steaming coffee in winter (as often happens), it is all illegal. Though a man's home may be his castle and though he must buy and maintain his mailbox, its interior space essentially belongs to Uncle...
...work along the Freedom Trail. The results are not the cliches you'd expect--there's no-one in Revolutionary War dress. Instead there are prominent local artists like Carpenter Center animator, Mary Beams. She is known for her dancing penis animations but her subject at the North End Mail is an antique film projector. "Works in Progress" is billed as a chance for the public to see some of Boston's "hidden resources." The people who hang out at the North End Mail may not feel that strongly but do regularly quiz Beams on her progress over...