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...surprise is that the U.S. mails move at all. The Post Office work load is staggering. Last year 716,000 postal workers coped with 80 billion pieces of mail. Next year 84 billion pieces will go down the chutes into a system plagued by inadequate buildings, antiquated equipment, eleven militant unions, and a patronage system that makes political plums of the nation's 32,000 postmasterships. Yet Congress is reluctant to reform the system, has cast a cold eye on a recent recommendation by a presidential commission to replace the Post Office Department with a Government-owned corporation...
...Take a load off Annie...
...Take a load for free...
...Pope Paul was clearly unprepared for the gale of protest aroused by the encyclical. In a mid-week audience at Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence, Paul told an audience of pilgrims something of the personal agony that had accompanied his decision. "Never before," he said, "have we felt the load of our duty. We have studied, read, discussed as much as we could. And we have also prayed a lot. How many times have we had the impression of being almost submerged by this heap of documents? How many times have we realized the inadequacy of our poor person...
Profits are still a long way off, but British Hovercraft is thinking big. Applying the hover principle to industry, the company is currently producing, mostly on an experimental basis, an air-cushion pallet called "Float-a-Load," which can be used to move industrial equipment weighing up to five tons. Its hopes are highest for the $4,000,000 SR.N4, whose potential market over the next ten years could exceed 100 orders if all goes well on its showcase channel crossings...