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...Massachusetts at the age of 24, and eventually rose to hold several government posts. He wrote one of the greatest autobiographies ever penned by an American, the first edition of which is on exhibition; and the U.S. Post Office this spring honored his sesquicentennial by issuing a special commemorative stamp...
Philately may seem a gentle avocation, but Postmaster General Larry O'Brien knows better. After he approved a 5? stamp to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Henry David Thoreau's birth, furious collectors complained that the Post Office Department was making the Walden Ponderer look like a thug, a Communist, a hippie or "a beatnik suffering from withdrawal symptoms." One fan even threatened civil disobedience. "If you bring a blown-up poster of this hideous thing into Concord, Mass.," he wrote, "you'd better send along a contingent of the National Guard." Fortunately...
Currently, members of the John Birch Society and other right-wing organizations are complaining that the Post Office is cottoning to subversive types with a 25? stamp portraying Negro Leader Frederick Douglass, a $1 issue honoring Playwright Eugene O'Neill, an 8? Albert Einstein number, and others of Philosopher John Dewey and Revolutionary War Pamphleteer Tom Paine. Last spring the Protestant-dominated Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed suit in U.S. district court to prevent the 1967 reissue, in a slightly larger version, of last year's Christmas stamp, a Madonna and Child portrait...
Shadows & Warts. Sometimes the Post Office does heed its mail. When last year's 5? George Washington brought protests, the department agreed that "the stamp needs a bit of face lifting." Last month it doctored the shadows and warts in the design...
...conspiracy," he said, but rather a growing sense of responsibility among white officials. One factor making Freeman so soft-spokenly cautious is the virtual control of Southerners over both the Senate and House agriculture committees. Another is the fact that the $195 million bill extending the Food Stamp Act was saved from a crippling amendment in the House last month by just eleven votes. Freeman obviously hopes to accomplish more by wooing Southern Congressmen than by warring with them...