Word: mailbox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drop in car thefts. The same sort of result is achieved when taxi drivers carry little change to be robbed of, and when their cabs are equipped with bulletproof partitions. Young women who live alone are safer when they keep dogs in their apartments; welfare clients are foiling mailbox thieves by picking up their checks in person; and elderly Boston women are going to morning Mass in self-protecting groups of ten to 20. One of the most important contributions to the new style of defensive living is one of the simplest: more and more cities are lighting...
...ordinary Chicago mailbox, the kind mailmen use for stashing their extra loads while making rounds. But what were those shuffling and humming sounds coming from within? Curious or startled passers-by probably never found out, but they were made by Mailman John Prine, scrunched up inside the empty box to escape the icy wind, eating his lunch and composing his mournful songs...
...first got to know the Herald well in 1969 when it offered me a reporter's job. The offer came like magic--through a telegram in my mailbox--and it was attractive. From the words of the Publisher's Assistant who made the offer, it sounded as if the stodgy, old, provincial Herald was about to make a run for real success...
Busy on a story, Tim Findley did not check his mailbox at the San Francisco Chronicle until 3:30 in the afternoon. Even then, he did not bother to open a letter addressed to him from Chicago until 5. Printed neatly by hand, it warned that bombs had been planted in safe-deposit boxes in nine banks in New York, Chicago and San Francisco by a radical political group calling itself "Movement in Amerika."* The letter went on to list the names of the banks as well as the numbers of the boxes; enclosed...
...memo from FBI headquarters, agents were urged to increase the numbers of interviews they conducted with radicals, not for investigative purposes, but because it would "enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles and will further serve to get the point across that there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox...