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Sweet & Pungent. Any less stringent reform, O'Brien argued, could only be "painful and difficult" because of the "restrictive jungle of legislation and custom that has grown up around the Post Office Department." If the telephone system were run as the mails are, he said, "the carrier pigeon business would still have a great future." In view of the postal service's snowballing problems (TIME, Dec. 30), the idea of a quasiindependent agency similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority offers some compelling advantages...
...surprise, the President last month got an assist from the adversary. By a vituperative rejection of the latest U.S. peace proposal, North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh displayed unmistakably his own hawk's plumage. Last week U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, long a stringent critic of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, was also rudely rebuffed...
...committee's recommendations could have been more stringent. It did consider the alternative of forcing law firms to sign an oath refusing to discriminate in hiring...
...average, about 30 students a year are dismissed, or allowed to resign, for violation of the code-about 1% of the cadet wing. Some critics of the Academy contend that the standards are both unnecessarily stringent and unworkable. Nonetheless, the Air Force and the cadets themselves agree that an honor code is absolutely essential to the training of officers and gentlemen who will be responsible for the lives of other...
Every state and city, of course, must compete for industry. Because antipollution equipment and procedures are expensive, a stringent local program inevitably discourages new plants in the area. Other local interests can also come into play. When the Arizona legislature debated a smog-abatement bill last week, one member charged that it was discriminatory. "Under this bill," joked State Representative Lloyd House, a Democrat who is a Navajo Indian, "we would not be permitted to send up smoke signals." His real objection was that it violated tribal land rights. The bill passed anyway...