Word: postal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting admitted to the U.S. The current most wanted list favors doctors, veterinarians, nurses, tool and die makers, teachers and engineers. West Germany has set up recruiting bureaus in Athens, Madrid and Naples, this year imported 43,000 workers from Italy, 13,000 from Greece and Spain. The German postal administration even imported a group of Spaniards, rushed them through a language course to learn to deliver the mails. Within a few weeks the Spaniards were fluent enough in German to read signs outside factories that offered "the highest wages anywhere," turned in their mailbags for better jobs...
...sword. The tribal laws permit extremes of individualism, though most Kennedys look alike when they smile. When they are together, the family foofaraws are noisy and the discussions continuous, but when they are apart, their need for constant communication strains the facilities of the telephone company and the U.S. postal service. No matter where they happen to be, the Kennedys are a cable-stitched clan. The sisters communicate by long distance at least once a week; Jack and his brothers hold daily strategy meetings by telephone or in person. Father Joe, whether in his Manhattan office, his summer home...
...President had sent the bill back to Capitol Hill with an angry note that it was "indefensible by any light," and that Congress had yielded to "intensive and unconcealed political pressure." While blue-uniformed members of the nation's most effective lobby, the U.S. postal workers, packed the galleries, the House whooped past the veto, 346 to 69, with 89 (out of 145) Republicans deserting the President. The Senate concurred 74 (including 18 Republicans...
...national figure. He is determined to install a strong central government rising above tribal loyalties. The son of a Batetela tribesman, he grew up in equatorial Stanleyville, where he attended first a Catholic, then a Protestant mission school, finally completing his education at the Belgians' training school for postal employees. A year after Lumumba took his first job as clerk in the Stanleyville post office, he was in jail, convicted of embezzling $2,520 of government money. Freed in 1957, he prospered as the persuasive salesman for a brewery, then began spreading his talents into the political field...
...give the district three votes in the Electoral College-the number held by "the least populous states" (Alaska, Vermont, Delaware, Nevada, Wyoming and Hawaii). ¶ The House, under the hard eye of swarming lobbyists, launched a 7.5%, across-the-board pay hike for 1,600,000 civil service and postal employees. Cost: $746 million. Headed for a sure veto by Ike, the election-year offering passed by a lopsided 377-40, swept through the Senate by another veto-proof landslide (62-17), over sharp complaints by Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater ("A purely political bill") and Idaho's Frank Church...