Word: postmarked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fugitive mails a birthday card to his child, for example. It bears no address, but does have a postmark. Or he calls a friend from a pay phone to ask about the family; his approximate distance from home can be determined when the operator says, for instance, "Deposit $1.65 please." Those geographical leads are often enough for Tracers, says Vice President Edward Goldfader, because the runaways seldom alter the familiar pattern of their lives when they take up residence in a new city. They do not change their names, often because they fear their inability to respond naturally if someone...
...TIME'S editors for the importance of their ideas and the excellence of their writing. We may even award more than one prize in each category-for that's the sort of thing that one would expect of a Tom Swift. In case of duplicates, the earliest postmark will determine which one gets the prize...