Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chteago Seven trial lawyer William Kunstler discovered while opening mail that supporters had sent defendants a packet of marijuana. When Judge Julius Hoffman told him to dispose of the packet, what did Kunstler promise to do with...
Outside the U.S., the London Daily Mail chartered a Boeing 707 to transport 150 orphans from Saigon. The Australian air force ferried out 212 more, who headed to Sydney, and 63 children were sent to adoption in Canada. At week's end a West German agency was still negotiating with the Saigon government to take out 50 orphans...
...confine our police and intelligence agencies to their legitimate work, then the days are numbered for freedom in this country. I am very much opposed to the Government's constantly looking over every citizen's shoulder spying on his day-to-day activities, opening his mail, compiling dossiers on his personal life. We have entered the decade, you know, that ends with...
...just one of these occasions, late in February, that the letter came. It was on cream-colored stationery--quite thick and impressive looking--with "The White House" embossed in small, plain letters on the flap. Walter had received no mail in the past three months, except a foreclosure notice from his bank and a curt note from the finance company telling him his 1959 Chevy had been repossessed. Walter was, needless to say, excited. He carefully ripped off the end of the envelope, pulled out the letter and read...
Financially set, Dees turned to law and eventually the S.P.L.C. On the side, he used his direct-mail savvy to raise money for politicians, among them George McGovern, for whose 1972 campaign his mailings raked in $20 million. Dees plays as he works-swimming as if a shark were after him, riding with the recklessness of a professional rodeo cowboy, which he once was part-time. But the son of a white Alabama farmer reserves his greatest passion for the cause of the South's blacks...