Word: stampings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yesterday afternoon, Carl H. Backes '01, standing by the stamp machine, was near the end of the line at the Science Center sourcebook office. Ten minutes later, the line stretched almost to the bottom of the stairs...
What you forgot to mention in your item on the special-interest, or collector, stamps being sold by the International Collectors Society [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 25] is that these issues, although legal, are often vastly misrepresented. Stamps like the ones you showed of the White House cat Socks are sometimes advertised as being rare or a great opportunity for investment. They are neither. They are printed in tiny countries at the request of the I.C.S., and only enough are used in the country of origin to qualify them as "genuine postally used." The block of nine Socks stamps, which sells...
...real La-Z-Boy ? where he can take an extremely popular position without lifting a finger. "Put simply, he wants to renegotiate," says TIME's White House correspondent Jef McAllister. "And he can, because he took this issue on a year ago and it's clearly got his stamp on it. Now he's come down on the side of C. Everett Koop and David Kessler, who say the settlement doesn't do enough for children. That's very hard to argue with...
PHILATELIC FELINE The Central African Republic, it seems, has a soft spot for Socks. But you don't have to go there to lick the back of the First Cat's stamp. The International Collectors Society, a privately owned stamp company, sells a block of nine for $12.95. The company, based in Maryland, is appointed by post offices around the world to help market and distribute special-interest or collector stamps, which are legal for postage in the country where they are produced and recognized by postal authorities worldwide. i.c.s. buys the stamps from the government, usually paying above face...
...cold feet. After agreeing to allow the Sunbeam Corporation to use the AMA logo on its medical equipment, the organization said today it wants to reconsider the five-year endorsement package. Why? It seems the esteemed group of doctors have not actually tested Sunbeam's wares, which makes the 'stamp of approval' meaningless. Critics maintain the AMA could hurt its credibility by lending its name for cash. TIME science writer Christine Gorman agrees: "It's when the money is changing hands that we start questioning this kind of agreement," she says. Will the AMA back down? The American Heart Association...