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Rare Versatility. The son of a Bronx postal worker, Williams got some early training as a sprinter on New York City streets. "We used to have a thing on my block where all the kids would try to catch the ice-cream truck as it was driving away and open the back door," Williams recalls. "I was usually the first one there." In high school he concentrated on the quarter-mile event, running sprints only occasionally. He began to shift that emphasis when, in only his third competitive 100-yd. dash, he equaled a New York State high school record...
...American official puts it: "With roads, the North Vietnamese can bring in the stuff of life-the paper clips for a bureaucracy, the beginnings of a postal system, school supplies, the works...
...intentional. So Herbert Stencil in V. chases around the world and backward in history to find what, if anything, Vera, Valletta, Vheissu and Vogelsang have in common. And Oedipa Maas, in The Crying of Lot 49, drives up and down the Californian coast exploring the remains of an underground postal system that has survived silently for centuries. But Stencil, Maas and Slothrop can never confirm their conspiracies, and what is more, they cannot tell which is worse--a conspiracy or the possibility that there is no force at all behind the pattern, that it is an accident, a random ordering...
Members of the committee delivered the "fat" and "thin" letters shortly after 12 midnight this morning to the Postal Annex at South Station, adhering to an Ivy League agreement not to release the letters before today...
...Postal Service officials try to dismiss their private rivals as "messenger services." Postmaster General Elmer T. Klassen admitted recently in congressional testimony that the Government corporation has been "so hellbent" on cutting costs that "we perhaps lost track of services." He pleaded for "more time" to build a fast, reliable service. National Postal Founder Peter Olsen proposes a different solution: have the USPS concentrate on handling letters and publications, and turn over all third-class mail delivery to the private entrepreneurs. Such mail has always lost money for the Government, Olsen notes, but "we have been making a comfortable profit...