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...system in direct competition with Uncle Sam-and making money at it too. No wonder. The U.S. Post Office these days is a monument to inefficiency, and week after week the catalogue of complaints grows fatter. Curious to learn what was in the badly battered package delivered by the postman, a Cleveland physician ripped off the wrapping and released a swarm of furious bees. Intended for a beekeeper in Columbus, Ga., the parcel had mysteriously acquired the doctor's address en route. In Los Angeles, a couple delightedly opened a two-pound box of Dutch chocolates, only to find...
...Tulsa, Ardmore and Oklahoma City, plus one in Dallas. Independent postmen pick up the mail, sort it at central clearinghouses, truck it to delivery routes. Then white-uniformed, bonded carriers trudge to each house, put the mail in plastic bags, which are hung on doorknobs (nobody but a U.S. postman is allowed to place anything in mailboxes). Supervisors conduct frequent checks to make sure that carriers do not resort to dumping circulars in convenient garbage cans -a constant temptation for carriers who get paid on the basis of how much they deliver...
Many scientists point out that very little secret university research is applicable in Viet Nam. Protesting classified projects because of the war, contends Stanford's Villard, "is about as logical as objecting to paying your taxes by kicking the postman who brings the tax form." Even less is such research directly involved with the development of new weapons. The canceled secret projects at Pennsylvania on chemical and biological warfare, for example, were primarily designed to find out how to protect U.S. civilians against attack from an enemy using them. "It is not safe for the U.S. to be ignorant...
...Tiger Makes Out. On the dark streets of Manhattan, a neurotic off-duty postman (Eli Wallach) goes on the prowl. Tired of being a second-class male, he decides to turn himself into a parcel of sexual energy. Mumbling to pretty girls as they pass, he ends every sentence with a proposition-and remains ignored. In manic desperation, he zeroes in on a likely target, claps a raincoat over her head, and spirits her away to his apartment...
Sibling Rivalry. Miller's Canine Behavior Center usually has two dozen dogs under treatment, and Miller has had a number of celebrity cases in his practice. He claims to have cured Kirk Douglas' apricot poodle of "terribly regressive" characteristics, disposed of the "postman syndrome" in the dogs of Lauren Bacall and Anthony Franciosa, and erased the dominance frustration in Katharine Hepburn's German shepherd. He did not have much luck with a case of sibling rivalry in Bob Hope's dogs, but he blames that partly on the Hopes, who did not show up for most...