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...Index, in fact, is unsparing in its depiction of the folkways of the Midwest. Nebraska, it turns out, has 376 one-room school houses. Half of first-time brides in Kentucky are teenagers. Turning its sights on the nation as a whole, the Index informs that every year 6312 postmen are bitten by dogs and that American's favorite meal is steak and potatoes...
...paving over the roadblock, which runs 30 to 40 ft. high in some spots. Mail in the area is temporarily being delivered by the 450-member National Pony Express Association, a private society that operates California's original pony express station, seven miles from the mud slide. Pony postmen include local ranchers, a highway patrolman and two 14-year-old boys...
...Newsweek reporters Peter Gockman and Tony Fuller sought out surviving members of the "gook-hunting, dirt-eating, dog-soldiering" typical combat unit known as Charlie Company. They found 54 veterans, flung far and wide since their return to the States at the end of the 1960s. They were postmen, statisticians, woodcutters, drunkards, narcotic detectives who had never before been asked about the Vietnam portion of their lives. Unlike with the country's earlier, more popular battles, nobody had cared. People wanted to forget...
...miles to the south in Brookfield, Postman Julian Hill offers another favorite vernal incantation. "In Vermont we have seven months of winter and five months of damn poor sledding." Hill, sporting a T shirt with the motto OLD POSTMEN NEVER DIE, THEY JUST LOSE THEIR ZIP, drives 63 miles a day on his rural delivery route. Detours add five miles in mud season. "I've had to jack myself out two or three times this year," he says. "The trick is to get under the car with this thing called a handyman jack, get it up three or four...
...three intermediaries originally thought of themselves as "postmen," serving only as messengers between Washington and Tehran. But the Algerians quickly moved to a larger and more complex diplomatic role. "The Iranians took a perverted pleasure in raising and dashing our hopes," explained a member of the American negotiating team. "We don't know exactly what the Algerians said, but they refused to be drawn into the Iranian game and eventually made them come to terms." The Algerians deftly avoided becoming guarantors of any final accord despite Iranian pressure to accept the responsibility. "The Iranians were suspicious of everyone...