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Working people are expected to become heavy patrons of the system because they feel so much more at home in Britain's 23,000 post offices than in its 5,000 banking outlets. Britons commonly go to the post office to make deposits in postal savings accounts and buy money orders for such things as bets in the soccer pools...
...helping African farmers boost rice production. In Ethiopia and Chad, Chinese veterinarians are advising farmers. In Rwanda, local artisans are using techniques taught them by Chinese jade and ivory carvers. And in South Viet Nam, clerks from Taipei's efficient post office are trying to unsnarl the postal and communications snafus of the war-torn country...
When the Overseers meet for the first time this year on October 14, Dillon will preside over a Board which includes six new members. Usually only five new Overseers are named by the postal election conducted each spring among all Harvard alumni. But the resignation of Hugh Calkins '45 to become a member of the Corporation created a sixth vacancy this year...
Reservists across the U.S. have eagerly followed Fort Meade's suit. Using similar arguments, lawyers last week were busy appealing their way to the Supreme Court on behalf of 13 members of an Army postal unit and 83 logistics troopers at Fort Lee, Va., and 23 finance clerks at Fort Benning, Ga. At Fort Riley, Kans., soldiers belonging to a reserve warehousing unit hired a lawyer to try to block their departure to Viet Nam. A suit filed in Federal Court in Hawaii earlier this month has added a new twist. Lawyers for 257 soldiers of the 29th Infantry...
...Kennedy "came to have remarkably similar views on Viet Nam." Four ex-Kennedy aides called the comment "false and misleading." Some of Humphrey's oratory was embarrassingly banal. "Every American," he intoned solemnly before a letter carriers' convention, "is at least entitled to have a postal address...