Word: postal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this scheme violates postal laws or is otherwise illegal," Dean Watson warned, "it might lead to serious consequences for those involved, including disciplinary action by the Administrative Board...
Finally, after Sherman had collected expenses from Radio Corp. of America for three separate interviews at four different plants, RCA got suspicious and notified postal inspectors. Later an engineering placement service sent one of Sherman's resumes to Radiation Inc. of Melbourne, Fla., a firm that Sherman had listed as a "former employer." Radiation officials checked with the federal postal authorities, and Sherman's jig was up. Arrested in Orlando, Sherman pleaded guilty to three counts of using the mails to defraud and now faces a maximum sentence of 15 years. Sighs Sherman: "I'm glad...
...flurry of edicts, Sukarno cut off all phone, telegraph, postal, airline and shipping links with Malaysia and abruptly halted all Indonesian trade with the federation. The trade embargo was childishly spiteful and totally without logic, for it would do far more damage to Indonesia than to Malaysia. Over 52% of Indonesia's total annual ex ports of $674 million is to the federation, and most of Indonesia's shipping is funneled through Singapore and Penang. Only Singapore has the facilities to process the low grades that make up much of Indonesia's rubber crop...
Wisconsin Tax Commissioner John A. Gronouski, 43, didn't know a ZIP code from a postal zone. Habitually, he forgot to mail his wife's letters, carried them in his pockets for weeks. His most prolonged contact with the mail service was in 1960, when he "licked a lot of stamps" for John Kennedy in the Wisconsin primary. But last week the President appointed Gronouski his new Postmaster General to replace J. Edward...
...TIME is banned in this country. I daresay that I am one of the very few people who have the honor of reading it. A friend in the States sends it regularly simply by removing the cover to avoid postal detection. Sea mail from the States takes two months to reach here, and the latest issue of TIME I have read is May 10. The article "Lincoln and Modern America" is an excellent one. Please pass my compliments to the author. Could he be the same person who wrote the article "The Age of Anxiety," which appeared in TIME, March...