Word: second-class
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...double doors of the drab green second-class railroad coach burst open as the train jerked to a halt. Onto the rain-drenched station platform tumbled 21 disheveled passengers. Men in ill-fitting clothes hurriedly handed down bulging cardboard suitcases. One man struggled with a monstrous feather mattress while a small boy darted away to admire the bicycles in a commuter's rack. There were few words, only a rush to get off the train. With good reason. For many of the passengers, the train was a reminder of a world they have been trying to leave since...
...statement in your Press section [Jan. 18] that second-class mailing rates will be raised by at least 50% this year is at variance with published statements of present Post Office Department officials as well as provisions of the new law under which the recently appointed Postal Rate Commission will operate...
Rising paper costs and an impending quantum jump in second-class postal rates are forcing shrinkage in the size of many U.S. magazines. Such LIFE-size books as Holiday and Boys Life have already been reduced to virtual TIME size. McCall's will go to the smaller format with its February issue. Last week Esquire announced that it too would shrink, starting in September...
...reasons are more economic than aesthetic; postage matters more than paper to the mass-circulation magazines. For those in financial straits, it is a matter of shrink or sink. Some time this year, a new, privately run U.S. Postal Service will raise second-class mailing rates by at least 50%, and probably by 100% over the next five years, to make second class pay its own way. Rates are based on weight; smaller magazines costless to mail...
...Complaints from blacks involve harassment of interracial couples . . . the practice of stopping any black walking along streets in the 'better' sections of town, and the general tendency to treat blacks as second-class citizens...