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Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter of Utah once hauled in nearly 30 postal workers for contempt of court because mail-sorting machinery in Ritter's courthouse was noisy. He freed 29 felony convicts simply because no attorney was present at their parole hearings. Once he had a reporter confined for two hours without explanation; a bailiff said Ritter was angered by the journalist picking his nose in court. He frequently bullies attorneys, threatening them with "one of those 150 meals the sheriff serves up." He awarded a group of Indians suing the Government more than twice what they had asked...
...Orwellian hell where a citizen can still be executed merely for "preaching counterrevolutionary slogans," where freedom of movement and career choice are all but nonexistent, and where authorities discriminate against relatives of former petty landowners. In one telling vignette, Munro writes of a man who insists that local postal clerks read his letters to an overseas relative, lest he be accused later of being counterrevolutionary. China, observes Munro, "in many ways is the most tightly controlled nation on earth...
...popular TV show of the '50s, The Millionaire, a vigilant philanthropist would single out deserving citizens and then stun them with a big check. Philanthropist Thomas Cannon, 53, is no multimillionaire, however. He is a black postal worker in Richmond earning $16,000 a year, who in the past five years has somehow managed to give away more than $33,000 of his own money. Most of it has gone, in $1,000 checks, to strangers whose misfortunes or good deeds he has read about. Some of his beneficiaries: a Colombian orphan who needed heart surgery; a couple...
Their chief tool, in fact, is not new at all: the U.S. Postal Service. Through direct-mail bombardment, the right alerts its friends to a particular cause and adds to its converts. In this letter-box war for American minds, the top general is Viguerie, who is considered by friend and foe alike the "godfather" of the New Right. At his office in Falls Church, Va., some 300 people crank out 100 million letters a year (200 million in an election year) to 5 million conservatives whose names are on computer tapes. Says Viguerie: "The left controls all communications except...
...facts of his life began to emerge, the much-sought gunman turned out to be the loner the psychologists had predicted. He had apparently abandoned the few friends acquired in his earlier years, lived alone in a sparsely furnished apartment in suburban Yonkers, got along comfortably with fellow postal workers but rarely initiated a conversation, and kept his personal feelings to himself...