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...Queen's pay increase is likely to come as much by farther lifting of expenses from her shoulders as by increasing her allowance. In recent years, the government has assumed the cost of royal tours, upkeep of the royal train, and the Queen's postal bills, as well as about $100,000 of the annual cost of state entertainment. Prince Philip, who receives a taxable annual stipend of $96,000, has recently induced the Treasury to pick up the laundry and cleaning bills he runs up on state business. He has not yet had to give up polo...
...million people out there who have read the Post at one time or another and remember it," he explains. "I think that's a good base." The current quarterly Post has a modest press run of 550,000 and will be sold only on newsstands; the new postal-rate increases, in SerVaas' view, make subscriptions too expensive to service. Advertising for the 160-page first issue is a healthy 50 pages...
...place among moguls of Italian business. Her new real estate company will have assets of $160 million. In addition, her holdings extend to the fields of toothpaste (one-third of Italy's output), matches (70% of national production), cosmetics, chemicals, highway construction, paper, banking and mutual funds. Her Postal Market Italiana is the country's first and largest mail-order house. Because she juggles her portfolio constantly, it is difficult to estimate Anna's net worth. She and her husband Giuseppe Bolchini, a respected but lesser-known financier, pay taxes on an income...
...private letter writer may take some small consolation, however, in considering the postal rates of 1792, when it cost an uninflated 22? to have a coachman carry a one-page folded message a distance of 450 miles. The once flourishing tradition of personal correspondence has faded in the U.S. For years, Americans have tended to favor the more direct communion of telephone wires. Given the condition of telephone service in some parts of the country, however, it may be safe to predict a small renaissance of letter writing in America, even at the higher prices. Of course, if the postal...
GOVERNMENT. This year the Civil service exam, covering everything from postal clerks to narcotics agents to explosive inspectors, was given to 112,000 students, or 65% more than last year. But only about 10,000 will be hired, roughly 2,500 more than in 1970. Many students would draw the line at working for the Defense Department or the Internal Revenue Service, but are eager to participate in educational-reform programs or get a start in the environmental sciences. Law enforcement and safety are two fields with good