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...lucky: she was hired as Ethel Kennedy's social secretary at Hickory Hill, Va. Pilots Mel Vos and John Stout are doing all right; they have gone into the tree-planting business northwest of Chicago. Some of their fellow crew members at United Air Lines are becoming postmen, salesmen and teachers. Others are still looking, and growing more desperate. For 16,500 U.S. airline employees suddenly out of work (of a total force of 300,000), the new lean look of air travel has brought a wrenching change...
...National Association of Letter Carriers, complains that a cost-cutting job freeze has reduced the number of letter carriers in the past year by about 10,000. The reorganized Postal Service relied greatly on computerization to improve service, but the result has been slower deliveries and angrier postmen...
...chaps who set up emergency mail-carrying services for high fees. When extravagantly mustached Union Leader Tom Jackson tearfully asked postal workers in Hyde Park last week to return to their appointed rounds while a three-man board studied their demands, he was booed for five solid minutes. The postmen, who were demanding a 13% increase in their weekly pay, which now runs from $36 to $66 (the Post Office offered 8%), had lost nearly $432 per man. The Post Office has suffered a net loss of nearly $72 million, and it is estimated that it will take at least...
...parishioners' letters for 30? each. Scotland's electricity board got employees' wives to distribute bills by hand. For 72? a letter, one outfit collected mail from London firms and delivered it to Paris by plane. A London builder and decorator named Tim Randall, 24, recruited seven "postmen," mostly students, at 96? an hour to deliver letters...
Though Colonsay boasts only one store and a pub, McPhee writes, "things amplify. It may be the light." The mountains seem bigger than they are, the cairns like fortresses, the people like characters out of sagas, even though they are cattle farmers, shepherds, dock keepers, postmen, laborers-sometimes a little of each. The past, running easily into the present, gives it a special meaning. Donald Gibbie, for example, worked ceaselessly to earn the equivalent of $1,500 a year. Nevertheless, being a blood-proud descendant of the island's ancient chiefs, when he happens to walk past a particular...