Word: postal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father's Palm Beach villa last week and announced the appointment of California Insuranceman J. Edward Day as his Postmaster General. "Having just mailed a letter from Washington to Boston and having it take eight days to get there, I am hopeful we can improve the postal service." said Kennedy. With this typically self-confident postscript, Jack Kennedy's selection of his Cabinet was complete...
...quiet, tree-lined town of Gilmanton, N.H. enjoyed a fleeting notoriety when Townswoman Grace Metalious renamed it Peyton Place. Behind Gilmanton's doors, Novelist Metalious found fictional murderers, abortionists and deviates. But somehow she overlooked Richard Pavlick, 73, a slight, white-haired postal clerk and onetime mental patient, whose only aberration seemed to be writing angry letters to newspapers and to public figures. One day last month Richard Pavlick decided to do something worthy of inclusion in Peyton Place: he made up his mind to kill a President-elect...
...rural Michigan mail carrier, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, 61, blossomed as co-author of a book that he once wished he could lay hands upon: U.S. Mail: The Story of the United States Postal Service (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $5). In Manhattan for an author's luncheon, Summerfield admitted that his favorite game is Post Office, proved that he is still an addressee at heart. Said he wryly: "It's difficult to explain why a piece of mail-a letter, a postcard-has not been delivered in due time. But often the delay is because...
...whacked the English." And Scottish national pride, always touchy, has taken on a new tenderness since the crowning of Elizabeth II. who. the Scots insist, is only Elizabeth I to them. So many Scottish mailboxes bearing the official stamp "E.R. II" have been blown up or blocked up that postal authorities are currently installing new ones without the numeral...
...passed. The Democrats accuse the Administration of neglecting national defense, but are not planning any major increases in defense appropriations. The Democrats are set to ignore several of the measures that the President called for in his message to Congress, including a new farm bill, increases in postal rates, authorization of 40 new federal judgeships, liberalization of immigration laws, abolition of the interest-rate ceiling on long-term Treasury bonds...