Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What would happen if The Mail ignored the act? "Oh, that would mean a very serious trial," Pogrund says. "They'd charge us with printing military secrets--very serious...
...Pogrund also takes great pride in the stature and reputation for integrity that The Rand Daily Mail enjoys throughout the world. The American National Press or "Emperor" award for 1966 went to The Mail, South Africa's most widely read morning publication, and the paper still carries the award emblem above the masthead each day. The same front page, however, carries a box every day with the name of the Editor, Raymond Lauw; of each editorial writer for that day and of the newsman who wrote all the day's headlines...
Vorster's regime has already routed a leftist newspaper. And Pogrund expects that greater restraints will be placed on The Mail. But he has no second thoughts about his future. "South Africa is my homeland, too," he says. "This is what I've devoted my entire adult life...
What if the government finally does begin to imprison the editors of The Mail? "Any one of we top three can step in and take over at the drop of a hat or as a result of one phone call; that's what we've been brought up through the ranks and trained for," Pogrund says...
...double-dealings and triple betrayals. It is lavishly mounted and loaded with flash. The movie also offers Dustin Hoffman, giving one of his best performances, up against Laurence Olivier, who is in fine form playing an archvillain. Watching Marathon Man is a little like getting crowned by a chain-mail fist...