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Administrative Monstrosity. The great-grandson of a slave and the son of a postal worker, Weaver grew up in segregated Washington. He trained in his teens to be an electrician, but could not penetrate the union's color bar. Instead, he went to Harvard, where he earned three degrees, including a doctorate in economics. In 1933 he became an aide to Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, in the first of a long succession of Government and state posts he has held, most of them in the housing field. Along the way he taught at three universities, served as board chairman...
...President Kennedy took a further step with an executive order that bans federal-employee strikes while giving "exclusive" recognition to unions representing the majority of any federal agency's workers. Such unions already represent 700,000 federal employees (mostly postal workers); they bargain collectively with each individual agency -though not over such matters as wages and pensions, which remain congressional prerogatives. One problem, however, is that no one agency can handle all of its unionists' grievances. A postal worker's promotion is controlled by the Civil Service Commission, his wages by Congress, his working conditions...
...hands of human sorters who faced 72 billion pieces of mail last year. To speed up sorting, the Post Office Department is pinning its hopes on a new electronic gadget: an optical scanner that reads machine-printed addresses and sorts mail 15 times faster than the most efficient postal clerk. Introduction of the device, says Postmaster General Larry O'Brien, "is as much an historical event as the issuance of the first U.S. stamp in 1847 or the first city delivery of mail...
Shunted to the proper slot of a mechanical sorter, letters wind up in one of 279 bins representing major U.S. postal zones...
...chrome, iron, steel and meat. That made the embargo 95% complete. Simultaneously, Wilson ordered a halt to interest payments, dividends and pensions from Britain to Rhodesian residents, thus damming a flow of income that totaled some $25 million last year. He even outlawed Rhodesia's bright new independence postal stamp as British postage. If Smith was scared, he wasn't showing it: with rich, like-minded South Africa backing him up, he was counting on shifting Rhodesia's trade to the south, thus easing the sting of the British embargo...