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Instead of double-or triple-parking mail trucks at railroad terminals, drivers waited obediently for curbside parking space-and missed the trains. Postmen were careful to take only the regulation 35-lb. load on their rounds. According to the rules, mail must be delivered only through the recipient's mailbox or handed to him personally; normally, if there is no mailbox, the postmen simply poke letters through a window or, if the recipient is out, hand them to a neighbor. Now all mail that could not be left in a mailbox or delivered personally went straight back...
...addition, Home noted acidly, many members refused to carry their share of the U.N.'s financial load. They are, he said, "free enough with their votes" but "not nearly so ready to pay their legally assessed subscriptions." Of the 104 members, 82 are in "serious arrears." This suggests "power without responsibility...
...months ago. when the SEC announced its intention of investigating all the nation's stock markets, some Wall Streeters wondered where Washington would find enough securities experts to handle the job. Last week the signs were that Wall Street itself might take a good deal of the load off the SEC's shoulders...
Looking like a Dauphine that has just swallowed a Cadillac, the hero tools home to the alley he lives in: hardly room to park. Then he takes half the quartier out for a spin; runs out of gas. Next day he drives to work. When the boss gets a load of that showboat parked next to his own heap, he fires the hero on the spot. Two days later, Dhéry gets a new job as a chauffeur: his boss is the mistress, who promptly locks the poor lunk in the trunk, drives by the wife's house...
...couldn't have his way on this or that, 'I'll get sick.' " Temperamentally unsuited to the night-in-night-out routine of Broadway. Gleason was bored with the show when it was still in Boston, but- bursting onstage saying "Get a load of all the bottle babies," and dancing as lightly as a weather balloon in the stratosphere-he won unreserved praise from such alto-brows as New Yorker Critic Kenneth Tynan and Sir Laurence Olivier. He also won the Antoinette Perry award as the season's outstanding actor in a musical...