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...anticipated budget surplus. To pay for the postal raises, the President asked Congress to increase first-class mail rates from 6? to 10? and to boost second-class and bulk third-class mail and parcel-post rates by 5% to 15%. In addition, he called for a speedup in collection of estate and gift taxes. Portions of the deal face trouble in Congress, which appears reluctant to raise mail rates...
...vindictive measure." The board's action, said Douglas, was "a type of administrative absolutism not congenial to our lawmaking traditions." Justice Potter Stewart and Chief Justice Warren Burger concurred, but on the narrower grounds that the draft board had violated Selective Service rules by starting Gutknecht's speedup before giving him a chance to challenge his delinquent status...
...Several Washington officials now believe that he may have been called home because Ho had suddenly begun to fail. These officials also believe it was more than coincidental that last week, only hours before Hanoi announced Ho's approaching death, North Vietnamese Negotiator Xuan Thuy hinted at a possible speedup of negotiations should the U.S. accept the principle of total withdrawal from South Viet...
...anything resembling a full legislative program. He can move abruptly at times, however. He announced his plan to end Post Office patronage without consulting the congressional postal committees. While he had first counseled against haste in filling the more than 100 sub-Cabinet jobs still vacant, he ordered a speedup before leaving for Europe...
...pituitary gland was a major factor in the sudden aging of the salmon. As the fish enters fresh water, he found, the pituitary quickly grows to more than twice its normal size, and the central nervous system fails to maintain control. The gland then triggers a metabolic speedup that burns away practically all of the fat in the salmon's body. Biochemist Andrew Benson, associate director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, explains: "It is as though all the glands were programmed to cause the combustion of fat simultaneously so that the whole machine runs out of fuel...