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About 32,600 local males registered for the draft--a figure compiled only because one postal service employee believed the numbers would be useful in case it happened again...
...charter subscribers this month. Billed as a program guide to public television, the Dial also features articles by first-class writers: Wilfrid Sheed on sports, Auberon Waugh on Alec Guinness, Stanley Kauffmann on acting. But the magazine was unexpectedly panned by the House of Representatives, then by the U.S. Postal Service. Reason: the Dial- which will be sent to 650,000 PBS-TV supporters in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., as part of their $25-minimum contribution-is bursting with ads, $580,000 worth in the first issue alone...
...Erickson, Dial's editor, disagrees. "For years the Government has granted tax advantages to organizations that use their profits for socially useful purposes," says he. "And public television serves a useful purpose." Nonprofit publications are exempt from most taxes and save up to 50% on postal rates -a big edge over for-profit magazines, whose postal bills have increased some 450% since 1971. These concessions are enjoyed by an increasingly broad range of publications. Of the 35,000 periodicals regularly sent through the mails, 10,000 or so now get some nonprofit subsidies. They range from shoestring religious...
About 32,600 local males registered for the draft--a figure compiled only because one postal service employee believed the numbers would be useful in case it happened again...
Outside in the harsh sunshine, bookmobile workers ply everybody with posters and pins promoting-what else?-reading. Postal Carrier Wendell Brown emerges blinking at the cover of Louis L'Amour's The Burning Hills and waits for his wife Pat, who steps out bearing another L'Amour, The Lonely Men. Says Pat: "I got it for him." A well-fed matron waddles off with the Joy of Cooking...