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...Louisiana's Representative Jimmy Morrison, chairman of the House postal-rate subcommittee, wanted a stamp commemorating the Great River Road that runs from Canada to New Orleans along the Mississippi-and right through his district. Larry O'Brien, needing Morrison's support for a parcel-post reform bill, ordered ,the stamp. O'Brien got his bill and Morrison got his stamp-but when the Congressman came up for re-election last fall, his constituents voted him out of office. As for his stamp, a poll run by Linn's Weekly Stamp News, the philatelist...
With Ackerman virtually retired at 72, Trautman is mapping Greyhound's new routes. Trautman has been president for only 16 months but has already become embroiled in a battle for a 20% interest in the Railway Express Agency, which would dovetail with Greyhound's growing parcel-carrying business. Bitterly opposed to any butting in by the busmen, truckers and the railroaders have carried the fight to the Supreme Court...
...disputes, tax dodging and habeas corpus petitions from state prisoners (up 36% since 1963). Also copyright infringements, kidnaping, moonshining cases, compensation for injuries at sea and auto accidents involving citizens of different states (20% of all civil cases), and such federal misdemeanors as trapping migratory birds, concealing letters in parcel-post packages. And a lot more...
...more than half of South Viet Nam's citizenry in the countryside will be unable to vote because they live in Viet Cong-dominated areas beyond Saigon's emerging rule of law. Since self-rule at the village and hamlet level is so much part and parcel of the Vietnamese way of life, both Saigon and Washington hope that the example of the next few months will have its effect in Communist areas by creating a groundswell of discontent directed against the Viet Cong, in envy of the newly restored and visible perquisites in Saigon-controlled areas...
Based tenuously on the Atalanta and Hippomenes story, "A Hit and A Myth" is set in the "Ancient Greek city-state of Beotia," a debt-ridden parcel of backwater real estate ruled by that most amiable of tyrants, Tenintius (Stuart Beck). The King is trying to auction off his daughter, Atalanta (George Denny), to any one of a number of suitors, and right now the smart money's on a wealthy young Spartan, Hippomenes (Rich Hammond), who's so good looking that even the Vestals paw his tunic...