Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Michigan Attorney General Frank J. Kelley investigated, then wrote a letter to the state's department of mental health. "We make no judgment relating to the hospital's handling of the Cronk matter," wrote the attorney general. He itemized the high-pressure techniques against advertisers, and added: "Hospital officials have, in effect, made the state a party to an attempt to stifle freedom of the press by the use of economic pressures. [The hospital's] power has been perverted. Such action cannot be tolerated...
...kinship that urbanized modern readers have with them: a dependence on the "private, mythmaking faculty" by which people dramatize their existence in a mass society. It is a kinship with Dickens as well. In the 1970s more than ever, the feeling he once voiced in a letter seems hauntingly familiar: "I don't seem able to get rid of my spectres unless I can lose them in crowds...
...this man's press secretary for permission to attend a presidential press conference," admitted Robert Gordon, who does not approve of Richard Nixon. Nevertheless, several months ago, in his capacity as a feature writer for his high school newspaper in Newton, Mass., Gordon, 16, wrote a letter to Ronald Ziegler, because "I couldn't sleep and there was nothing else to do." Gordon, son of a real estate executive, was surprised by the result: an invitation to join a number of other high school and college journalists at last week's televised news conference. Their presence...
Swiss Businessman Rudi Bucher was celebrating his 54th birthday at his home near Lake Como when a congratulatory letter arrived from his brother, Switzerland's Ambassador to Brazil. Life in Rio, wrote Giovanni Enrico Bucher, 57, a suave, popular bachelor, was "pleasant and uneventful." One day, he predicted, Brazil would be one of the "stablest nations of Latin America." One day, perhaps, but not just yet. Moments after Rudi Bucher finished reading the letter, he heard that his brother had been kidnaped by urban guerrillas...
Joseph Rhodes, a Junior Fellow at Harvard and the youngest member of the commission, took issue with the President's letter, saying, "The letter really doesn't say much about the substance of our report. We urged the President to deal with the fundamental issues in a way that will be a reconciling force...