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Just nine days before the beginning of spring, the worst snowstorm of the winter blanketed New England and extended as far as Virginia and the Mid-west. In Cambridge, the storm stopped even the proverbial mailman...
Jews often tip the mailman to bring the return reply to them, rather than to the concierge, who is usually a Communist agent and apt to use the knowledge to grab the applicant's apartment or his possessions. When finally ready to go, emigrants must surrender all money and documents, and submit an inventory of their permitted 154 lbs. of luggage (132 lbs. for children). Furniture may not be taken with them, and it may not be legally sold. The emigrants are required to write and often to rewrite statements that they had never had it so good...
WORLD SCOOP, blared a Page One banner headline announcing Mailman Noel Barber's series on "a war nobody knows about." To gather the "whole wicked story" in Tibet, Barber (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958) and Fellow Mail Correspondent Ralph Izzard trekked 200 miles along the rugged Nepal-Tibet border with four Sherpa guides and 40 coolies, who carried their six tents, snow boots, whisky, double-lined sleeping bags, tinned food, drugs and 4,000 French cigarettes. For serious Tibet experts, Barber's panting prose about the guerrilla warfare between Chinese Communists and Tibetan warriors brought guffaws. But then Adventurer...
...chief qualification as a Finance Minister was that he was a faithful party member. A onetime mailman who spent much of his early life in and out of French colonial jails. Le was all right in guerrilla days when he confiscated enough rice from the peasants to feed Ho's troops, in return for which he issued bales full of newly minted dongs, all bearing Ho's portrait. But running an economy of 12 million people came a little harder. Today, salaries and taxes are still computed in bags of rice, and on this basis a worker earns...
Bill of Wading. In Hattiesburg, Miss., during the city's worst flash flood in years, a mailman sloshed into a flooded filling station, handed Operator Paul Shows his monthly water bill...