Word: letters
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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President-elect John Kennedy stood in the patio of his father's Palm Beach villa last week and announced the appointment of California Insuranceman J. Edward Day as his Postmaster General. "Having just mailed a letter from Washington to Boston and having it take eight days to get there, I am hopeful we can improve the postal service." said Kennedy. With this typically self-confident postscript, Jack Kennedy's selection of his Cabinet was complete...
...security was not all that asleep. The Secret Service got word of a letter Pavlick had written, proclaiming his ambitions. A nationwide alarm went out for his arrest. On Royal Poinciana Way in Palm Beach last week, a policeman spotted Pavlick's car, arrested him for driving on the wrong side of the center line. In the car, police officers found the dynamite. "In a way, I'm glad it's turned out the way it has," said Richard Pavlick as he was held on $100,000 bail for the first assassination attempt on Jack Kennedy...
...Edward O. Miller, 45, of Manhattan's prestigious St. George's Church on East 16th Street announced from his pulpit last week that he refused to read the 4,000-word pastoral letter prepared by the Episcopal House of Bishops at its meeting in Dallas last month. Canon law demands that within one month after it has been received, a pastoral letter must be read in each of the denomination's 7,500 parishes. But the "sheer mediocrity" of the "ecclesiastical jargon," protested Protestant Miller, made it necessary for him to disobey...
...There he worked for six months to raise money for a boat trip to Kampala. He spent $1.05 for a physics book (which he memorized), and haunted the U.S. Information Service library. One day he stumbled on Skagit Valley in a directory of U.S. colleges. "I wrote a letter and got one back saying I had a scholarship...
...even steelmen, who have been wrong about their 1960 prospects so often that they have lately maintained a discreet silence, felt more optimistic. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, who last October said that inventories would drop to the 11-12 million-ton level by November, reported in a letter to stockholders that inventories had reached "about the same level they were at the end of the 1959 strike, an estimated 10-11 million tons," and are not likely to undergo "any appreciable further cut. The prospect of an improved operating rate in steel seems much more substantial than anything...