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Declaring a national emergency, Nixon said yesterday in a televised statement. "What is at issue here is the survival of a government based on law," and urged the estimated 167,000 postal workers still on strike "to return to [their] jobs so that negotiations can begin...
Irving Shear. spokesman for the Boston Postal District, said yesterday that only four of the area's 90 stations did not report to work. Members of the Boston branch of the Massachusetts Letter Carriers Association voted at a tumultuous meeting Sunday night to return to work after a brief stoppage Saturday...
...country. One interesting suggestion to assure a fairer deal for the customer is legislation-already in effect in Florida and Arkansas-that provides an incentive by directly tying the telephone company's permitted profit to the level of service that it provides. Bell contends that it needs a return of 8% to 8½%, on invested capital, compared with its present legal limit of 7½%, in order to buy equipment for future needs. Three weeks ago, New York Telephone raised its rates. The monthly cost of a typical Manhattan residential phone went from $12 to $12.75, which...
Pablo Picasso has always been articulately hostile to Franco's Spain. Only four months ago, he brusquely refused a request from the Spanish Government to acquire his celebrated Guernica, which depicts the sufferings of civilians in the Spanish Civil War. "Guernica will return to Spain only when the republic is restored," he declared from France, where he has lived for nearly 70 of his 88 years. And he himself probably will not go back before Guernica. Thus, the French were somewhat aggrieved last week when it was announced that Picasso had donated some 900 of his early works...
Even after his father died, the family kept the apartment, and lovingly maintained the collection, of Picasso's earliest sketchbooks and the paintings he turned out on his occasional return visits. Nobody but Picasso really knows just what the collection contains. But officials estimate that there must be about 260 oils, 600 drawings and 100 or so gouaches. There are sketches of his friends, the gulls circling over the seaport where his father once worked, the dance halls and bullfights that he saw in Barcelona...