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...billion in the current fiscal year, ending June 30, and $2.5 billion in fiscal 1971. Such expenditures would surely wipe out this year's anticipated budget surplus. To pay for the postal raises, the President asked Congress to increase first-class mail rates from 6? to 10? and to boost second-class and bulk third-class mail and parcel-post rates by 5% to 15%. In addition, he called for a speedup in collection of estate and gift taxes. Portions of the deal face trouble in Congress, which appears reluctant to raise mail rates...
...Palomo Linares had defied Los Siete Grandes, the seven biggest ring owner-agents, who henceforth intend to control the sport by setting fees and scheduling matadors. For that, the pair had been banished, cast out to fight before the drunks and girls and the never-grow-ups in picturesque third-class towns...
...welcome their illustrious guest. The De Gaulles then left by police-escorted limousine for the tiny village of Sneem in County Kerry. There, in a secluded bit of southwestern Ireland, where the Gulf Stream's warm waters nourish subtropical vegetation, the couple had rented a small twelve-room third-class hotel called, the Heron Cove. Normally frequented by hikers and artists, it commands a sweeping view of Kenmare Bay from its 100-acre grounds...
...First-Class Third Class. Murray and Hinshaw decided that they could only do better. Last winter, on an investment of $2,000,000, they formed the Independent Postal System of America. Right now their corporation handles only third-class "junk" mail (which accounts for 27% of all mail), mainly in Oklahoma, with outlets in 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...
...service is cheap-only $25 per 1,000 pieces, v. $42 per 1,000 pieces for the U.S. mails. And it is fast. While the U.S. Post Office spaces delivery of third-class mail over several days, the independent postmen guarantee 100% delivery on the date specified by each client. Says Bill Overstreet, sales promotion manager of J.C. Penney's Tulsa stores: "A while ago, some of our advertising was delivered by the Post Office ten days before our sale was to begin, and customers started coming in expecting the bargains that were in the circulars. Now, with...