Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...element of the Nixon proposal is the elimination of congressional control over the Post Office. The Nixon reform would establish an independent Government agency called the U.S. Postal Service to be run by a nine-man board of directors, seven of whom would be appointed by the President, subject to Senate confirmation. The office of Postmaster General, a Cabinet-rank post, would be abolished...
...their civil service benefits. Since Congress would no longer be setting wage rates, the employees would have the right to collective bargaining. Postal rates under the Nixon reform would be recommended by a separate three-man advisory group whose suggestions would be acted upon by the nine-man controlling board; however, rate changes would still require congressional approval...
...mutual benefit of this arrangement is clear. Says James H. Rademacher, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers: "I could buy every ingredient in Nixon's package if Congress retained its control. I look at that proposed board of directors, and I see money signs in their eyeballs. These guys would be interested in only one thing-a self-supporting operation, and public service would be sacrificed every time...
...Yorty's strategy, which Bradley last week called a "blatant appeal to racial prejudice," was effective even beyond the mayoral contest. It produced a vote of 840,000, or 75% of the 1,100,000 voters eligible, 137,000 more than had turned out in April. Two school board candidates who traded heavily on the violence issue defeated moderate incumbents...
...more sense if the photos had been selected with a bit more care. The good ones (like the WHRB series or the girl combing her hair on page 117) are all the time undercut by self-conscious posed snapshots and full-page pictures of subjects like a Radcliffe bulletin board or a Harvard toilet. Graphically, the book seems reasonably inventive and handsome, though the moody two-page shot of an athlete running up the Soldier's Field steps with last year's sports scores illegibly super-imposed in matching type has to rate as a major debacle. It is also...