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Shortly after midnight this morning, a red 1963 Volvo pulled up at South Station to submit seven bags of mail to the tender mercies of the U. S. Postal Service. By the beginning of next week, 6936 applicants will know whether they have been admitted to Harvard, and the University's $300,000 annual admissions operation will turn its attention to the class...
...postal workers' walkout has proved particularly grating. Everyone lost something, except for a handful of enterprising chaps who set up emergency mail-carrying services for high fees. When extravagantly mustached Union Leader Tom Jackson tearfully asked postal workers in Hyde Park last week to return to their appointed rounds while a three-man board studied their demands, he was booed for five solid minutes. The postmen, who were demanding a 13% increase in their weekly pay, which now runs from $36 to $66 (the Post Office offered 8%), had lost nearly $432 per man. The Post Office has suffered...
Kill or Cure. The capitulation of the postal union's leadership is being hailed as a victory for Ted Heath's hard-line stand against inflationary wage demands. After Heath's apparent victory over the Electrical Trade Union workers in December, though, a board of inquiry subsequently gave the workers much more than they had expected. Britain's bobbies have just won a 16.5% wage hike -well above Heath's 10% limit. Now the nation's 230,000 railwaymen are pressing for a 15% to 25% increase, and London's 26,000 busmen...
...plain brown wrappers that arrive unbidden in their mailboxes, Americans are often startled to confront erotic tableaux that range from the elaborately Oriental to the nearly gynecological. Last week a law took effect that could reduce the flow of pornography somewhat. According to the new measure, incorporated into the Postal Reorganization Act last year, anyone who does not want to receive pornographic material can go to the nearest post office and request that his name be entered on a computerized list. Thereafter, any pornographer who sends "sexually oriented ads" to a person on the list is liable to a fine...
...will make the pornographer's trade at least a bit more difficult. For one thing, the cost of obtaining the Government's roster will be between $5,000 and $10,000. Then the pornographer must laboriously match up his own mailing list against the Postal Service's. Although the law will undoubtedly face numerous legal challenges, the effect could be to drive smaller pornographers out of business and leave the field to a few large, computerized firms. Should that happen, of course, Americans might look forward to the day when the Justice Department could bring antitrust suits...