Word: mailmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...across the country, mailmen gathered in their union offices, and as the clock approached midnight the tension began to rise. Would there or would there not be a postal strike in the morning? The answer came shortly after 4 a.m. Washington, D.C., time, when Emmet Andrews, head of the American Postal Workers Union, emerged bleary-eyed from behind closed doors at the offices of the Federal Mediation Service. After a tense, all-night bargaining session that capped 17 weeks of talks between the U.S. Postal Service and its 570,000 unionized employees, agreement had been reached on a new three...
...talks become deadlocked, the mailmen may strike next month. That would be illegal, but the Postal Service is so worried that it has drawn up crisis plans to have important mail such as Social Security checks sorted and delivered by the military, including the ROTC. There is also a somewhat remote possibility of a railway strike early this autumn if a new contract cannot be achieved by the time the federal mediation period expires...
Quincy House residents petitioned the Cambridge post office for the return of a mailbox on the corner of Plympton and Mt. Auburn Sts., but the post office said it was an unlikely prospect because drunken students kept moving the mailbox, confusing mailmen when they came to empty...
...times like these, in the early morning hours, that visions of palm trees and pedal steel guitar music start winking and swaying, sultrily enticing while outside Cambridge's wind chain-saws through the joggers and mailmen. Palm trees equal sunshine, sixpacks, surf. Pedal steel guitars equal smoky night clubs, sequins, cocaine in the back rooms. What more could you want? (For spring vacation, anyway...
...White. Although Amnesty heartily supports the freeing of draft resisters as part of its overall policy on the liberation of political prisoners. White terms it "unfortunate" that Amnesty International should be identified with them exclusively, lamenting that "simply the word 'amnesty' causes antipathy among some people." She says that mailmen have been known to refuse to deliver letters bearing the organization's name for this reason (Amnesty now uses the initials A.I. for its return address...