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...latest knee in the consumer's groin weren't more than enough, the Postal Service is now winding up for the rabbit punch. Postmaster General Benjamin Bailar says if it is to survive what he calls "a financial crisis of serious proportions," the USPS may have to end Saturday mail delivery, eliminate special delivery service, and slow down delivery. Congress, ever eager for false solutions, seems more inclined to abolish the corporation and return to the old politically-controlled Post Office Department, forgetting that the good old days weren't much better. After all, Congress set up the corporation...
...least 146 Sioux-men, women and children-died in the Seventh Cavalry's crossfire on that frozen December morning in 1890 at Wounded Knee...
...anyone reading Philos' document may hear a now familiar tone of self-justification and self-excuse: "... excesses occurred ... the actions of inexperienced, untested troops who were carried away in the heat of battle ..." As for the word massacre, Indian Historian Dee Brown (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee) declared that "when you fire on defenseless women and children with Gatling guns, I don't know what other word...
...classes that will be admitted next summer. West Point will take in about 100 women cadets, the Naval Academy 80 and the Air Force Academy 100. The women will wear handsomely cut uniforms, basically like the men's, except that the females will carry purses and wear knee-length skirts, as well as slacks...
Betty Ford recalls that when Jerry called at her home for their first date, he knocked over a vase filled with fresh roses. Though Ford is an excellent skier and swimmer, he has a weak knee from an old football injury, and that could cause some of his pratfalls. Moreover, the President could conceivably begin to win sympathy for his inadvertent clumsiness, especially if the jokes grow too cruel, as they are on the verge of doing. Nonetheless, the ridicule factor is fast becoming yet another worry for Ford's strategists. Jim Squires, Washington bureau chief for the Chicago...