Word: postal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years since Charles II organized the Post Office. Britain's blue uniformed postmen have made their appointed rounds despite highwaymen, Hitler's bombs, and a maze of pettifogging postal regulations that run into several thousand pages of fine type. Last week, by the trick of working strictly according to the rule book, British postal workers who want higher pay came close to strangling the Royal Mail in red tape...
...years. The budget for fiscal 1962, an Eisenhower-Kennedy hybrid, so far shows a deficit of $6.9 billion. In "balancing" the first pure-Kennedy budget, the Administration counts heavily on a higher tax take from rising corporate and personal income, and on congressional approval of a controversial rise in postal rates (which could be gobbled up by postal wage rises ). The Administration also assumes that there will be no extraordinary and unexpected defense spending-the very factor that caused the 1962 deficit. Most members of Congress feel that budget expenditures in 1963 will fetch up closer to $95 billion, with...
...bring the former colony under the economic supervision of the central government, and the State Bank of India has taken over Goa's Banco Nacional Ultramarino. Goan policemen, who had vanished when the Indian troops first appeared, were back on the job wearing their Portuguese uniforms. An Indian postal official arrived in Goa with $3,000 worth of Indian stamps, and Indian telegraph and telephone authorities wrestled with the problem of replacing Goa's antiquated, hand-cranked telephones...
Harvard is assigning "two extremely dirty books" to its students. This discovery was announced Wednesday by Rep. Kathryn E. Granahan (D. Pa.), chairman of the Postal Operations Subcommittee. Regretfully, she failed to specify the particular books involved...
When Brother Ted Kennedy, who has ideas about running for U.S. Senator next year, called from Boston to ask how he could explain to postal workers the President's veto of their pay raise, Kennedy offered no solace and said that he also intended to cut back installations in the area. Said the President: "Look them in the eye and tell them if we don't get the revenue we can't provide the raise...