Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt about it, and so is a sense of unity and a feeling that the odds can be overcome. Damascenes do not seem to mind the inconveniences of the war: gasoline shortages, bread lines in the ancient covered suqs (markets), closed movie houses, irregular electric and telephone services, sporadic mail delivery and strict censorship. They hardly notice the camouflaged trucks of the Syrian army that continually rumble through the wide, European-like boulevards or the large numbers of their steel-helmeted soldiers carrying AK-47 automatic rifles along narrow, thousand-year-old alleyways. Some lightheartedly boast that when they hear...
While most Jewish groups were soliciting direct aid to Israel, others tried to bring pressure on the U.S. Government. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a registered Jewish lobby, poured out a stream of appeals by mail, telegram and telephone. Jews were urged to contact their Senators and Congressmen to support prompt military and diplomatic aid to Israel. Committee Chairman Isaiah ("Si") Kenen, known as Israel's man on the Hill, called a meeting of some 30 Jewish leaders, after which they urged Congress to pass a resolution accusing the Arabs of starting the war and demanding more military...
Karbo, a bearded bear of a man, started a direct-mail house in 1962 to sell books on health, sex, beating the horses and how to get out of debt in 90 minutes (Karbo was once $50,000 in debt, and it took him three years). Before he wrote Lazy, he ran test ads for it: "I used to work hard . . . but I didn't start making big money until I did less-a lot less. For example, this ad took about two hours to write. With a little luck it should earn me fifty, maybe a hundred thousand...
...AMERICANS must write to their congressmen calling for Richard Nixon's impeachment, but it is of paramount importance that congress's most influential leaders receive an abundance of mail urging Nixon's removal from office...
...Neill said Sunday that he will have to take a serious look at impeachment. A large-scale demonstration at his JFK Building office combined with voluminous mail will be the most effective means of convincing O'Neill to abandon his hesitant position and lead the drive to indict Richard Nixon...