Word: postal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unusual for a defendant to claim that he was trapped into committing a crime. Often he is speaking the truth, at least by his own lights. Law enforcement officers regularly "solicit" criminal activity by playing up to homosexuals, using decoy letters to trap postal thieves, making narcotics "buys," and getting their pockets picked. Entrapment, in fact, was the chief defense in a trial that closed in Manhattan last week. The case concerned the three men who were arrested last February in a bizarre conspiracy to blow up the Statue of Liberty (TIME...
...Boston record-American reports this morning that postal authorities allegedly found a list in Miss Ryserson's Rochester apartment which apartment which, the paper says, contains names of college students in the Greater Boston area who might have received marijuana through the mail from de Lissovoy and Miss Ryerson...
...letter allegedly containing marijuana sent by Miss Ryerson to a former Cambridge resident, Miss Andres, Clarke, at her home in Ashville, N.C., touched off the investigation. However, postal authorities have brought no charges against either Miss Ryerson or de Lissovoy...
...long ago, the three former British East African nations of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda were talking ambitiously of joining together in political federation. There was easy agreement to maintain the joint rail, air and postal services handed down by the British, and all three nations continued using the East African shilling as the common currency. A common market was developed, with a Central Legislative Assembly to govern it. Last year the three good neighbors even agreed to divvy up future industrial development equally among them...
...Partially because of the extraordinary national increase in college applications. Harvard received about 15 per cent more applications this year then ever before. When a member of the admissions staff piles 6500 letters into his Volkswagen bus shortly before midnight on April 16 to take them to the South Postal Annex in Boston, only about 1400 for 23 per cent) will be acceptances. An unprecedented 5100 people will be rejected...