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Before a joint meeting of the Magazine Publishers Association and the American Society of Magazine Editors in Washington, O'Brien advocated a radically new setup under which 1) a government-owned corporation would replace the present Cabinet-level department, 2) responsibility for operations would be vested in a board of di rectors nominated by the President and confirmed by Congress, and 3) the board would select a professional administrator to run the service...
Under the present setup, the Postmaster General has only limited control over his department. Congress sets rates, wages and other regulations, sometimes with devastating results. The 89th Congress adopted a rule governing employees' work schedules that had the unintended effect of adding 45,000 men. Under O'Brien's scheme, Congress would do no more than establish broad guidelines to determine how much of the postal service should be financed by general appropriations and how much by users' fees. After that, the corporation would...
...committee, Ford said, will probably review this junior faculty setup. Ford admitted that the number of desirable jobs opening up in other universities makes it difficult to hold onto non-tenured faculty members...
...grown from what Dr. Farnsworth called an "abominable" setup in 1954 to what he now says is "the most imitated and studied College Health Services in the country," its problems have naturally changed in character. Instead of the adventures and dangers of starting a new health network, Dr. Farnsworth now faces the more sophisticated, if less dramatic, problems of maintaining a going concern...
...Workers out of the federation, told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee that craft union leaders were "hiding behind pious declarations on paper." His "greatest disappointment since the merger," said Reuther, "has been the failure of the labor movement to solve the problem of minority groups in the craft union setup...