Word: postal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nouveau is the interior at Maxim's, the typography of McCall's, the Ziegfeld Theater, the shopping bags of London's Elliott shoe company, the gaudy Metro exit at Paris' Place de la Bastille, the Postal Savings Bank building in Vienna, the curly white painted Italian furniture, Tiffany lamps, Gallé vases, books with spiraling Aubrey Beardsley designs, and twisted, forged-iron banisters now flooding art shops and galleries...
Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, 71, is lucky to be a Yankee: he comes from a state where the locals appreciate thrift. His mail clerk, Mrs. Judy Sherbert, spent a year winding the ties that bind the Senator's five daily postal consignments. Some folks might conceivably think her behavior a trifle odd, but not "Salty." He knows whereby hangs a tale to tell the voters of Massachusetts, so he called in photographers and bowled them over with Judy's 9¾-Ib. round of twine. "Let's get the ball rolling," he twanged...
...Penn's Stephen Goldstein, 26 (Justice Goldberg), is the son of a Philadelphia postal clerk, won a mayor's scholarship to college and earned a Phi Bete key. First in his class at the law school ('62), Goldstein matched the school's highest average in 30 years but failed to get a Supreme Court clerkship on graduation. Grabbed by a prestigious Philadelphia law firm, he later got a second chance to clerk and accepted because "I couldn't afford...
Although this letter is circulated by hand in an effort to circumvent Postal law, a Post Office spokesman pronounced the scheme "positively and irrevocably illegal" because it involves sending pay-off checks through the mall. The checks, said the spokesman, are part of the plan and as a result the whole transaction is against Postal...
Above all, the Reds strive to set up a rudimentary regime that will appear to rival the Saigon government. Boldly, the Front's yellow-starred flag now flies over dozens of villages. The guerrillas levy taxes, circulate their own currency, even operate a primitive postal system, complete with censors and stamps printed in Hanoi. For weeks, Radio Liberation has been triumphantly boasting that the organization held its "second national congress" early in January in a secret "liberated area." The 150 delegates were said to have demonstrated "a mood of patriotism as mighty as the Mekong River...