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...House approved and sent to the Senate an increase of $790 million in postal rates-raising the price of first-class letters to 5?, and airmail to 8?, imposing $53,400,000 in new rates on second-class mail (the Magazine Publishers Association predicted that many magazines and newspapers would be forced out of business by the new rates), and increasing the price of third-class mail from 1? to 3½?. Urged by the Administration as a budget-balancing necessity, much of the new revenue from the higher rates would probably be consumed by jumps in the wages...
Critic Jacobs is reminiscent of a middle-aged woman calling to mind the numerous penny sweets of her childhood; the higher-priced candy of today is better, but the sugars remembered are best. The development areas of today give the second-class citizen a better chance to succeed in the modern world, which is based on respectability. Congratulation, not reproach, is in order for the men responsible...
Last week Coach Lombardi was glumly writing Congressmen in hopes of getting his star halfback's Army reporting date postponed for 90 days. Hornung himself was frankly unhappy at the prospect of a year in second-class accommodations. But, wisely, he said little. "It didn't come as a complete surprise," he said, resignedly. "If I have to serve, I'll serve...
...PROMOTION provisions should be sharply changed so that U.S. publishers could not send in business reply cards and other subscription devices, and postal regulations on foreign second-class mail should be tightened in Canada's favor...
...farm boys," but the University makes no real talent search for qualified students from the greater Boston area. Applications from local high schools have even fallen off slightly. Lack of interest in attracting local studen can in part be traced to the Administration's apparent opinion that commuters are "second-class citizens," deprived of the educational benefits of dorm life. Certainly this was true when President Pusey took office in 1953. A study made by the Office of Tests reveals that '52 commuters felt a real isolation from the resident students, referred to by some as "those Ivy Leaguers...