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Word: mailings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undergraduate organization. So when a group of Harvard and Radcliffe students decided to give a big party for the college last Sunday night, it was a private affair. The hosts printed invitations and used the Centrex telephone directory as its guest list. Maybe the University does not want its mail boxes or its Centrex directory used for this purpose, but this does not solve the basic issue. There was a private party at Boston-Boston, albeit a large one, and the University attempted to say that it had jurisdiction...

Author: By Marc L. Baum, | Title: A Schizophrenic Assembly | 2/9/1979 | See Source »

...offered a bachelor's degree in an assortment of subjects for $85, a master's for $140 and a doctorate for $195, as well as authentic-looking transcripts. P.N.U. was closed down last spring but not before creating 350 "graduates." Degree-mill operators can be indicted for mail fraud. Yet the legality of lying about academic accomplishments is murky. Employers could sue; but they usually just fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Question of Degree | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...course, each time Teddy gets himself in the public eye, the volume of hate mail and death threats he gets goes way up. And as the last brother in the clan, he's got the responsibility for a lot of families. Charisma, personal power, whatever it is that defines the Kennedys as Kennedys--it's a two-edged sword. People are either won over passionately, see Teddy as the last liberal, the only strong leader left, the covert hope of the Democratic Socialists, or they see Teddy as part of a massive, global conspiracy of Mafiosi, British bankers, Zionists, Communists...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Once More With Feeling | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

These are the givens, along with a few more--like Brooke Shields--which make King of the Gypsies interesting. The movie's subject--the gypsy subculture in New York during the forties--deserves and receives much attention, but the plot itself is run-of-the-mail...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Be My Gypsy | 1/26/1979 | See Source »

...overseas subsidiary, Hilton International, was sold to Trans World Airlines in 1967.) Though Hilton's son Barren, 51, took over as chief executive more than a decade ago, Papa kept the title of chairman and continued to turn up daily at his Beverly Hills office to answer fan mail and assist charities. Besides Barron, another son, Eric, and 14 grandchildren, Hilton is survived by his third wife, Mary Frances, 63, a former United Airlines saleswoman he married two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: His Name Meant Hotel | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

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