Word: sender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paper on which "15,000 Holy, Holy, Holy I am Holy Jesus Christ 15,000" had been written on each line. Another headache for the post office must have been the envelope from Cedar Rapids with "Harvard University. Seven County Georges" scrawled illegibly on the front Appropriately, the sender was asking Harvard for instructions in catching pigeons--presumably carrier pigeons...
...been written on the envelope. The letter demanded that the manufacturer pay $1 million into a postal box at Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. in Chicago, and according to Chicago newspapers it implied that there would be more poisonings if this were not done. Investigators identified the sender as a Chicago stockbroker, name undisclosed, who had been a customer of Continental Illinois and had suffered heavy losses in the market. On Friday, Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fahner, who is directing a task force of more than 100 federal, state and local investigators, stated flatly that the letter...
...understatement. The bomb, a very sophisticated one, is intended to persuade its recipient, Freelance Writer Robert Halliday, that the sender is a man to be taken seriously. Next, through devious channels, follows a more attractive package: an offer to the writer to edit "a definitive work on the nature of terrorism"-based on the newly discovered journals of a 19th century anarchist named Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechayev. Halliday's fee: $50,000. Such jack being rare for a hack, Halliday warily takes on the job. It leads him to Italy and to the mailer of the bomb, an unsavory entrepreneur...
...record in the mile, with a 3-min. 49.0-sec. performance in Oslo (only twelve days after setting a world mark of 1 min. 42.3 sec. in the 800 meters). Just before the Olympics last year, Ovett went to Oslo and marked Coe's record "return to sender" with a time of 3 min. 48.8 sec. They finally met on the same track at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. In the 800-meter run, Ovett finished first and Coe second; Coe took the 1,500 meters, and Ovett came in third...
Another advertising option is direct mail, which enables the sender to pinpoint his audience. Islip, N.Y., Lawyers William Harrison and Alfred Koffler were dissatisfied with their newspaper-ad campaign offering house closings for $235, so they reduced their rate another $40 and sent out letters to 7,500 homeowners. The result: 200 clients and disciplinary proceedings by the local bar association. While New York State's highest court backed the pair and ruled that direct mail was allowed, 38 states still prohibit...