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...seasonal conspiracy, parents and postal workers arrange for Santa Claus to answer his mail with such postmarks as North Pole, Alaska, and Christmas, Fla. For years, thousands of those letters were stamped and sent out from Santa Claus, Calif.; but the postmark has been abolished now, and the small strip of oceanfront land in Southern California where once it was Christmas every day has lost more than a postal stamp. TIME Correspondent Tim Tyler visited Santa Claus and reminisced with the town's founder...
Blue collar anger has burst out this year in the worst epidemic of strikes since just after World War II, and in the form of hardhat riots in New York City, St. Louis and elsewhere. This year postal employees have gone on strike for the first time in history, city workers have stomped off the job in Cincinnati, and tugboat crewmen and gravediggers have struck in New York. Municipal employees in San Francisco and Atlanta, rubber workers in Akron, and teamsters across the country?all have walked out. In this year's first nine months, the U.S. lost 41.5 million...
...then it moved on?still searching. Yet Nasser came closer to filling the role than any other man since the 12th century warrior Saladin or perhaps the powerful 9th century Caliph of Baghdad Harun al-Rashid. A burly, broad-shouldered army officer, son of a lower-middle-class postal clerk, Nasser overturned a rotting monarchy 18 years ago and brought visions of prosperity to his own country and hope for new unity to a diffuse and frustrated Arab world. At the time of his stunningly unexpected death last week at 52, his original visions had long since been altered...
There have been some concrete successes. Nixon is well on the way to achieving a historic reconstruction of the postal service, ending its status as a quadrennial patronage prize and placing it in the hands of a semi-independent corporation. He has made Selective Service more equitable. He has reorganized the key decision-making and administrative apparatus of the White House. In foreign and military affairs, Nixon has formulated and begun to accomplish a gradual but potentially significant pullback in both commitments and forces -a more realistic alignment of policy with power. Other reforms, however, have faltered. Among them...
Part of the new militancy among Government employees is unquestionably a response to the success of the postal workers' illegal strike; part reflects the increasing sense of anxiety among blue-collar workers everywhere. The mood is also a reaction to the mixed benefits and frustrations of the civil service system itself. Working for the Government ordinarily offers great job security, but this attraction has been somewhat dimmed by large cutbacks in employment in the Defense Department and NASA. Government employees can eat 750 lunches in federal cafeterias, take yearly 26-day vacations after 15 years and-the biggest lure...