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...miles in four days. A letter mailed from Boston to New York may take as much or more time to reach a destination only 229 miles away. In the process, it may be mangled, misdirected or destroyed. And, pace Herodotus, snow, rain, heat, gloom of night and archaic facilities continually slow, if they do not entirely stay, the U.S. mail's appointed rounds. Last week the Administration advanced a sensible if quixotic proposal to make the Post Office an efficient public service. "There is no Democratic or Republican way of delivering the mail," Nixon said, "there is only...
ORGANIZED labor long ago acquired a stranglehold over the $85 billion construction industry. That power has not only led to an astronomic rise in building wages but has also enabled unions to load the nation's largest industry with archaic and inefficient methods of operation. As a result, construction costs are climbing so swiftly that they are complicating Washington's struggles to increase the supply of housing and restrain inflation. Last week George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, challenged construction-union leaders to adopt reforms. His candor was greeted with boos, jeers and catcalls...
...stultifying parts of De Gaulle's rule that produced the chaos of last spring. It began with students protesting against the archaic and unfair practices of France's education system...
Farming has been a feast-or-famine business for almost as long as history has recorded harvests. Today's bins of surplus food serve as pointed reminders that most agricultural policies are inadequate, inconsistent and archaic. The cost of subsidized farming in the Common Market is more than $2 billion a year; in the U.S. it is $3.6 billion. Yet prices are erratic, and people go hungry. Agricultural technology has shown that the Malthusian apocalypse of starvation can be avoided. The immense task now for the producers is to devise the economic and political conveyor belts that could...
...long range, he urged innovation in social programs, including a total-and long-needed-restructuring of the archaic federal-state-local welfare complex. "Our studies," he said of the welfare field, "have demonstrated that tinkering with the present system is not enough. We need a complete reappraisal and redirection." One immediate measure to help the poor will be submitted to Congress this week, when Nixon will recommend that all those below the Government's poverty line ($3,300 for a family of four) be released from any obligation to pay federal income taxes. Many poor people now have...