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Hoping to stamp out uncoded checks of all sorts, which account for a troublesome 2% of its daily traffic, the Fed has relegated them to a sort of second-rate status. Unlike coded checks, which are processed in a day or two, an uncoded check submitted to one of the Fed's twelve regional banks might be shuffled for ten days or more...
...Pushed a resolution through his rubber-stamp National Assembly, effective July 1968, renouncing the international convention honoring political asylum...
...sniper's bullet, the machine-gun burst in the night, a bus full of farmers dynamited, the satchel of plastique, the grenade tossed into a crowd?all are surgically planned by the Viet Cong to specific ends. In the countryside, terrorism often aims to stamp out the peasants' sense of security, always tenuous at best. A few guerrillas firing a dozen shots near a lightly defended government village pose an agonizing problem for the local commander. If he calls for reinforcements, it is almost certain that no enemy will be found. If he does not, the villagers may begin...
...cries. "Let me speak to you of my Fuhrer with love. He who answered our German need. He who res cued us from the depths . . . His power lay in the love he won from the people . . . Do I see you begin to raise your hands? Do I hear you stamp your feet. He gave us our history. He gave us our news. He gave us our art. He gave us our holidays, he gave us our leisure, and he gave our newly-married a copy of Mein Kampf. At the end we loved him . . . With the killers of the world...
...stamp designs (for which commissioned artists receive $1,000) are reviewed by the Postmaster General's eleven-member Stamp Advisory Council, which is trying to avoid turkeys like the 1948 stamp celebrating the poultry industry. Still, the department must occasionally wince and yield to pressures from Capitol Hill. In 1966, Louisiana's Representative Jimmy Morrison, chairman of the House postal-rate subcommittee, wanted a stamp commemorating the Great River Road that runs from Canada to New Orleans along the Mississippi-and right through his district. Larry O'Brien, needing Morrison's support for a parcel-post...