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...system known as Area Mail Processing, mail is picked up and taken directly off to distribution centers where huge, highspeed letter sorters shuffle through thousands of pieces formerly handled by local post offices. Instead of postmarking a letter with the name of the town where it was mailed, the AMP machines simply stamp envelopes with the phrase "U.S. Postal Service," followed by an abbreviation of the state and the first three digits of the area's zip code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Letters from Somewhere | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

WHEN I first arrived in Vientiane, I went to the Government Tourist Office to get amp of the city. At 10 a.m. when I arrived at the dilapidated Tourist Office, I found the door open but no one inside. I was tired and sat down to read a book I had with me. About half an hour later, a man in a coat and tie arrived smiled at me politely and said hello. I responded likewise and asked if he had a map of the city. He responded, "No speak English, sorry." I repeated the question in French, which...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: Hitching Through Laos Or, When is a Trail Not a Trail? | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

...AMP, offered three times each year to executives in government and industry, attracts businessmen to study current managerial theory. One hundred sixty executives are currently enrolled in the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apollo 8 Astronaut Borman Lauds Aerospace Projects | 12/8/1970 | See Source »

Former Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman yesterday afternoon described what he called "man's conquest of space," and justified the existence of the United States aerospace program to fellow members of the Business School's Advanced Management Program (AMP...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apollo 8 Astronaut Borman Lauds Aerospace Projects | 12/8/1970 | See Source »

...education bill and the bill providing appropriations for HUD and other Government agencies. The vetoes would open up Administration loyalists to at least one certain override vote in Congress, endanger the future of desegregation funds the President desperately wanted in order to keep the South in his c amp, and run the risk of labeling electioneering Republicans "anti-education." These were high stakes. Minority Leaders Gerald Ford and Hugh Scott warned Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Having It Both Ways | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

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