Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defiance of Constitution and statute, the Central Intelligence Agency has a sorry record of illegal snooping on Americans that stretches back more than two decades. It has burgled and bugged U.S. homes, tapped citizens' telephones and opened their mail. It has unlawfully infiltrated antiwar groups and black radical organizations and accumulated 7,200 files on those it considered to be dissidents. It has improperly, and sometimes unwittingly, allowed itself to be used by Presidents and their aides for political purposes...
...three-hour planning lunches in Washington, D.C., beginning in the summer of 1974. His guests were usually some 30 or so residents from various large cities, invited to Washington. Fund-raising affairs were held later back in those cities. This money in turn provided the capital for a mail campaign launched through Morris Dees, an Alabama lawyer who ran George McGovern's effective mail solicitations in 1972. Jackson has acquired no fewer than 66 lists, including subscribers to Newsweek.* He hopes to collect the full kitty of $7 million by the end of this year (the law permits spending...
Curiosity seekers started streaming into the province, a scrubby sand plain 14 miles from the Indian Ocean and enlivened only by an occasional kangaroo. Tourism rose from 3,000 in 1970 to 40,000 last year. Mail from round the world is running at 200 letters a week, many from prospective settlers who apparently see the province as a potential Elysium-on-Hutt. An air service flies in from Perth (370 miles south) twice weekly, first circling the capital as a signal to the prince to clear the grassy landing strip of grazing cattle...
...become stunningly expensive to send a magazine or newspaper through the U.S. mails. After a series of rate increases calculated to make each class of mail pay for itself, publications today pay about 100% more for their second-class postage than they did in 1971. By next year, if current Postal Service schedules hold, the increase could mount...
...rates for local mailing of newspapers would shoot up 250%; books and records, 96%; third-class bulk advertising, 35%; and fourth-class parcel post, 67%. The inevitable result, say Wenner's critics: use of the mails would drop, Postal Service revenues would fall, and the entire system would be in a deeper hole than it is now with its $800 million annual deficit. The individual first-class user might save a few dollars a year. But, claims Coleman Hoyt, distribution manager of the Reader's Digest, the saving would be cancelled by increases for other classes of mail...