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With so much at stake, the White House has been using all its muscle to hold the agreement within the guidelines. Federal Mediator Wayne Horvitz, who helped arrange settlements in the postal and oil workers' negotiations, is sitting in on the bargaining and trying to nudge the two sides together. The Administration is implicitly threatening the industry against caving in to union demands. The Interstate Commerce Commission has informally told the companies that they will not be allowed to pass through-as higher rates-any raises of more than 7%. Until now, the ICC has merely rubber-stamped...
This year is officially (according to United Nations decree) the International Year of the Child (IYC). The only visible American commemoration so far this year has been typically mercenary: the Postal Service last month issued a stamp to honor the event (and to rake in loads of dough from stamp collectors). Last year Dr. Peter Bourne (remember him?) was temporarily in charge of the U.S. national commission to coordinate IYC activities in this country...
...Look fell victim to television competition, rising postal rates and the high cost of subscription renewals. The new Look hopes to sidestep such difficulties, concentrating on single-copy sales from racks in supermarkets, shopping centers and stationery stores. Look people regard LIFE's revival four months ago as an encouraging icebreaker. If LIFE does well, they hold, Look may too. So far the LIFE signs are good. The Time Inc. monthly magazine just raised its ad guaranteed circulation to 1 million, from...
...accept it, but as she drove it back to her office in Detroit, she began to worry. The box was from Montgomery Ward, but the sender, Edward Achorn, was unknown to Margaret and her husband despite the identical last name. What if the thing was a bomb? She telephoned postal authorities...
...Postal Inspector J.M. Black reasoned that since she had taken delivery, it was her problem, not the post office's. He suggested calling the Detroit police bomb squad. The bomb squad soon arrived with eight squad cars and an armored truck. They took the suspected bomb in the armored truck to a remote tip of Belle Isle in the middle of the Detroit River. There they wrapped detonating cord around the package and, as they say in the bomb business, "opened it remotely...