Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: The article on inflation in the U.S. [June 20] will leave many Europeans puzzled. In view of the market prices you publish, which strike us as being generally much lower than those quoted in Western Europe for similar articles, the predicament of the cited middle-income families is difficult to understand. Our market basket is certainly much more expensive than the U.S. housewife's, but in Europe no $25,000-income family would think it had to do without its annual vacation or renewing its dining-room chairs, and an $8,600-income family would certainly...
...Sir: Upper-Middle-Income Costley's $9-a-pair sneakers have got to be a figment of somebody's imagination, unless they're being imported from Spain...
...Sir: Jacqueline Susann's statement that she is in the same league as Nabokov [June 20] is comparable to the Arkansas...
...Sir: I was amused at your discussion of pickpockets [June 20]. As an ex-member of a whiz mob (pickpocket group), it is evident to me that the kind of people Detective Inspector Candlish has had his experience with are pretty crude operators. Nor is his information entirely correct. A stall is not a "runner"-whatever that is supposed to be-a stall is an extremely skilled kinetic psychologist who knows exactly how to walk alongside or in front of the "mark" (victim) so that he is forced to slow down or turn aside, right into the wire. This...
Last week Australian pride was finally served. In a ceremony that was televised by satellite to audiences in Manhattan, Tokyo and London, as well as all over Australia, Governor General Sir Paul Hasluck officially opened...