Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes she signs her mail in the Treaty Room on the massive dark walnut table that was Ulysses S. Grant's. There she feels the White House spell the most. If she could summon back scenes from other eras, she would like to see the men gathered there...
...London papers, the big story quickly became not George-Brown's resignation but press coverage of his subsequent tumble. After the Guardian, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Express all carried front-page photos of the elder statesman's dive, the lordly Times weighed in with a cane-wagging editorial scolding them for lack of "compassion and delicacy" in showing George-Brown "fallen in the gutter." Perhaps, the Times added sarcastically, the other papers "resented his infringing their monopoly" there...
...Rees-Mogg defended his editorial as a needed blow against what he sees as an "increasing trend in Fleet Street to competitively intrude into people's private lives." Many Britons seemed to agree. The four offending papers were deluged with letters expressing sympathy for George-Brown. The Daily Mail devoted its entire letters page to complaints on the matter-but noted that it did so because "newspapers, like politicians, operate in the public arena...
...becomes increasingly clear to him that what he is doing in the Peace Corps makes no sense on any level. He came to Qatab to work for peace, and finds himself in the employ of the CIA, which has photographs of him in various compromising positions and can black-mail him into anything. Beyond the cruder forms of imperialism in which he finds himself inexorably involved, though, there is an imperialism of a more basic sort as well. Alan has always assumed that learning and modernity are good things, and his most straight-forward and untainted Peace Corps sort...
Despite a current annual budget of $14.2 billion and a recent rate hike that averaged 26% on all classes of mail, the service will post a deficit of $1.4 billion this fiscal year, which ends June 30. To make ends meet, the service wants Congress to double its present $920 million annual public service appropriation. The Administration is opposed to such an increase contending that mail users should pay for rising costs. Some Congressmen who want to return to the old post-office system note that the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 insists that the service strive to be selfsupporting...