Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Italian authorities, who unblinkingly insist that 95% of all mail is delivered on time, nonetheless admit that there is a daily backlog of 5,000 tons of mail; newspapers charge that it is more like 12,000 tons. Whatever the figure, the backlog is so huge that cynics have suggested that the mountain of undelivered mail be junked and that the post office start all over again. Someone in the system seems to agree: in June, Italian police discovered that 200 tons of undelivered mail had been sold to a Bergamo processing plant for recycling...
Though it is intended to save them from injury or worse, many motorists resent the "interlock" system on 1974 cars, which prevents the engine from starting until the driver and all front-seat passengers have buckled their seat belts. Impressed by the volume and vehemence of constituent mail on the subject, House members voted two weeks ago 339 to 49 to tack onto a Department of Transportation appropriations bill an amendment that would kill the requirement that cars be equipped with an interlock system (and also the annoying buzzer that sounds when a seat belt is unfastened; only a warning...
...typical week nowadays we get 1,300 letters. Since the spring of 1973, Watergate has inspired 40,000 pieces of mail, many of them eloquent and impassioned. In order to provide a better showcase for all kinds of opinion, Forum, which replaces the old Letters section, will run in the middle of the magazine and be given more prominent display. The first Forum deals with, among other topics, amnesty for Nixon, his resignation and its meaning. Some of the writers, such as William Ruckelshaus and Norton Simon, are well known; others are not. Future contributors are invited to spell...
...wife Antoinette). The groups are small-typically only a dozen people who bind themselves to each other through eight principles or covenants. The principles include a broad sharing of time, ideas and possessions when another member needs them. His group is continuing Bible studies with Jeb by mail and visits while he is in prison...
...landed a $30-a-week job as a mail clerk at MGM, and kept his ambition in fighting trim by calling all the executives by their first names. "Hiya, Joe," he grinned at Producer Joe Pasternak, who stopped for a moment, then threw out the classic line: "Hey, kid -how'd ya like to be in pictures?" Pasternak gave Nicholson a script, and told him where to show up for the screen test. Nicholson looked the script over but did not realize that he was supposed to memorize his lines. The test was a disaster, and Nicholson was back...