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...fitting. A man with Anderson's kind of mission should be a loner vis-a-vis all sorts of authority. The church-and Pearson-are probably the only yokes he has willingly borne since he left home. He grew up in Salt Lake City, the son of a postal worker; his mother once drove a taxicab to subsidize young Jack's missionary travels for the church. At the age of twelve he was a newspaper employee, reporting on Boy Scout affairs, and in high school he was student-body president. Once he tried to do an expose...
...vanished, and neither postal authorities nor Penn Central's computers could figure out where it had gone. Last week, after 25 months, the railroad car turned up on a siding in Perryville, Md. Because of mechanical trouble, the car had been shunted off to be repaired or junked. Someone forgot about the mail, which was finally sent on its way marked "Delayed due to circumstances beyond the control of the U.S. Postal Service...
...rate increases go next to the five-member Postal Rate Commission for possible modification and then to the nine Governors of the Postal Service for final approval. At that point, the publishers can take their case to the U.S. Court of Appeals. However, M.P.A. President Stephen Kelly and others believe that new legislation from Congress is a more promising route. The publishers have already started making their argument on Capitol Hill...
Senator Sam Ervin, the subcommittee chairman, agreed that press freedom could be curtailed "by exorbitant charges on distribution of materials," and suggested the Postal Service should be considered an essential distribution vehicle "just like the air waves for broadcast media." Democratic Congressman Charles Wilson, a member of the House Post Office Committee, believes a public service like the mails should not be allowed to set rates so high as to limit its use. Said Wilson of the Postal Service: "They've gone hog wild." How many other members of Congress agree remains to be seen...
...aides-the "Mormon Mafia" -did not have the work permits required of foreigners. Actually, the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, which is conducting a grand jury investigation of the Irving hoax, had issued a subpoena for Hughes to testify. On Valentine's Day, U.S. postal inspectors appeared in Nassau with the summons; federal officials intended to impanel a grand jury in either Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands to hear Hughes -at night, if he so desired. The postal inspectors consulted with Bahamian officials on the best way to penetrate Hughes' elaborate security in order...