Word: postmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With those opening words of Casino Royale, tough, handsome James Bond of the British Secret Service was born, soon to be hailed by millions of devotees the world over from Presidents (including John F. Kennedy) and princes to postmen and plumbers. All were effortlessly drawn into a magic country of tension and torture, peopled by pliant, pneumatic blondes, sturdy, self-sacrificing friends, and hordes of mean-eyed villains possessing every evil gift except the knack of shooting straight when firing at James Bond...
...Republic, in which all titles and honors had been abolished. "People call them baubles," said Napoleon of the awards. "Very well, it is with baubles that you lead men. There must be distinction." But the trouble was that the Legion of Honor soon lost its distinctiveness. Miners and postmen, shopkeepers, policemen, and even the official Elysée Palace silver polisher were garlanded along with poets, generals, industrialists and diplomats...
Noisome chemicals and tear gas proved as repellent to the courier as to the cur. An electrified "shock stick" showed promise, but postmen preferred to use it as a club...
This spring, selected postmen will set out on their rounds armed with slim aluminum cans shaped like outsize perfume atomizers. If a dog attacks, it will be greeted with a jet of "Halt," an odorless fluid containing mineral oil and an extract of cayenne pepper. Halt's pungency irritates the dog's respiratory system, has not yet given the Humane Society any cause for complaint. Says one safety engineer: "The dog puts his tail between his legs and slinks away to the back of the house." Where, no doubt, he meets the milkman...
Instead of double-or triple-parking mail trucks at railroad terminals, drivers waited obediently for curbside parking space-and missed the trains. Postmen were careful to take only the regulation 35-lb. load on their rounds. According to the rules, mail must be delivered only through the recipient's mailbox or handed to him personally; normally, if there is no mailbox, the postmen simply poke letters through a window or, if the recipient is out, hand them to a neighbor. Now all mail that could not be left in a mailbox or delivered personally went straight back...