Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English soprano, he was raised in Oporto, Portugal, where his father found work as a singing teacher. The boy went off to school in Switzerland and at 17 got a job as a clerk in London. One day in 1901, rising 26 and bored with answering foreign mail for a rubber company, he dashed off a short story in English and sent it to a magazine. Within a year he had brought out his first novel, The Suitors of Yvonne...
Every so often, Jimmy Carter sifts through his mail and finds a tactfully worded testament to his inadequacy. The content may vary from a suggestion that he abandon his call for "a national statute" limiting abortion, to a few examples of jokes he might tell, given his not-so-breezy speaking style. These missives are unfailingly polite-and Carter almost always obeys them. The author: Press Secretary Jody Powell, probably the only person on Carter's payroll who can regularly get away with pointing out the candidate's failings...
After a courtship conducted mainly by mail, the two were married in 1925 and in time had three sons. Clarence Mondale, 50, Fritz's older brother, is now a professor of American history at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Morton Mondale, 41, is an education official in Aberdeen, S.D. While Fritz was growing up in a succession of hard-hit towns, the family had enough money-but only barely. "We lived in houses most people wouldn't consider habitable," recalls Morton, "but I never considered myself poor...
...executives of Rohr, primarily an aerospace subcontractor, boasted that they would help rebuild the nation's surface transportation system. They planned futuristic trains, air cushions and people-movers (transmission belts carrying people rather than baggage). With equal enthusiasm, they spoke of new vistas in space communications and automated mail systems. It added up to a grand adventure into uncharted terrain-a bit too grand...
...Great Train Robbery. Now, Britain seems to have experienced a Great Plane Robbery. Last week Scotland Yard detectives were scurrying after leads in a daring heist of foreign currencies worth some $3.7 million-a robbery second in size, in Britain, only to the famed $7 million Royal Mail coach grab of 1963. The latest theft was carried out in broad daylight at Heathrow Airport, and it was acutely embarrassing to a U.S.-owned security and air-freight firm, Purolator Services Ltd., which frequently ships large quantities of currency...