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...lags weeks behind publication dates, and for the deaf-blind, for whom radio is useless, news almost always grows stale before it is read). Kinney, who never heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls before he read TIME'S April 15 cover story, starts the fragile sheets on a postal round robin of some 60 Hadley School correspondence students. The chain breaks only when the tiny raised dots are worn off the paper...
...entitled to congratulations." Passed, reported Texan Johnson, were "26 more important bills," including the Middle East resolution and establishment of the International Atomic Energy Agency as well as price supports for long staple cotton and a poultry-inspection law. (Probable losses: school aid, statehood for Hawaii and Alaska, a postal increase and U.S. membership in the world-trade fostering Organization for Trade Cooperation.) "Of course," explained the majority leader, "we will not satisfy everybody. No legislative body in the world could possibly act upon all the items which everyone considers urgent and pressing...
NATIONALIZATION THREAT faces Western Union, other international cable companies in France. Paris government is pushing to absorb these companies in its postal ministry, wants to collect as much as 50% of tolls on all international cables...
...some lower-salaried groups, or those with short hours, moonlighting is already traditional. Many schoolteachers have always had other jobs. So have firemen, postal workers and policemen. In one New Jersey community the police station is practically a hiring hall for housewives who want seasonal help in putting up storm windows or cleaning cellars. What is new is the rapid spread of moonlighting into high-paying fields where it did not exist before, or was not important. In Akron, where 30,000 rubber workers are on a six-hour day and a six-day week, 50% have more than...
...POSTAL WORKERS' WAGES will not go up in near future, although House Post Office and Civil Service Committee okayed $546 yearly raise for about 500,000 postmen. Measure stands scant chance in budget-whacking Congress, but even if it passes, President Eisenhower will veto...