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...fiscal 1960 budget, from the White House came hopeful reports that spending and revenue estimates were nearing a balance. A new postal rate increase, which the Administration hopes to get, would put revenue at about $77 billion, as against spending plans pared to about $78 billion (including a defense budget just about firmed at $41.5 billion). Still under consideration: requests for a 1½? increase in the federal gasoline tax and a hike in the aviation gas tax. If the budget could be brought into balance, President Eisenhower would achieve what seems to be his fondest domestic hope...
...Police Duties Execution Bill to cope with the nation's alarming rise in crime and labor violence (TIME, Nov. 3), Kishi has been denounced by the unions and the Socialists for wanting to return to harsh prewar police rule. Last week 180,000 coal miners, 60,000 postal and 50,000 telegraph workers went on strike in protest. Railroad workers forced the cancellation of 150 train schedules, and a brief teachers' walkout closed half the nation's schools. But Kishi's most nettlesome problem was in the Diet itself. Only four out of 46 bills introduced...
...initial issue, the publication noted that postal rates have made the cost of mailing the H.A.A. News to Varsity Club members prohibitive. Since the News is a football program, it has further been criticized as providing inadequate coverage of all intercollegiate sports, according to the newsletter...
Third creature in Sartre's drawing room "hell of other people" is Nadine Duwez as the postal clerk lesbian. She stumbles in her lines occasionally, and sometimes shouts too much, but she prowls Director Hesse's "arena" with greater confidence than the other two; her motions are perfect; and the great portion of her dialogue is excellent...
Thus last week the U.S., in a mixed-up, 20%-above-normal, Christmas-like post office rush, anticipated the increase of postal rates from 3? to 4? (lavender-colored Lincolns or gold-colored Bolivars) for first-class letters, from 2? to 3? for postcards, from 6?: to 7? for domestic airmail. Richer by $450 million revenue, Postmaster General Summerfield rosily called it "the beginning of the greatest period of postal progress in American history." Epilogue to an era, in the letters-to-the-editor column of the Chicago Daily News: "I have nothing to say, but I thought...