Postal addresses face future change as ZIP codes expand
The article outlines a looming shift in mail addressing as the Post Office weighs dropping city and state names from postmarks and addresses to favor ZIP codes. Edward Dorsey cites cost savings and streamlined sorting, while officials resist erasing community identity too quickly. The debate ties to broader moves away from traditional location identifiers in favor of numeric codes.
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Post Office Department
Post Office
Edward V. Dorsey
Long Beach
Dorsey
Postal reforms shift toward back door efficiency in ZIP era
In Charles Sutton's notebook, debate over dropping city and state names from mail, adopting ZIPlike zones, and replacing postmarks with broader efficiency. The GAO urges eliminating community identity to boost mechanization, while some resist, fearing loss of personal contact and local voice.
Indian elephant deal begins with Lakewood man in 1947
Jim Cohan, a Lakewood man in the U S Navy, won a baby elephant in Calcutta in 1947. He gave the elephant to a starving Indian boy who later built a business with 18 elephants and 36 workers on a large estate, while Cohan remains in the United States with a wife and daughter.
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India
Jim Cohan
U.S. Navy
Calcutta
Cohan
United States
Horatio Alger
Mally
Todd Shipyards
Question and answer on Dead Sea Scrolls and Charley Horse origin
The source notes Esther is not among the Dead Sea Scrolls. It also mentions Billy Sunday and Joe Quest as credited with coining the term Charley Horse after backing a horse that pulled up lame near the finish.
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Chicago
Billy Sunday
Joe Quest
A Moratorium on the Word Freedom Proposed
The writer argues for a one year moratorium on the terms freedom liberty and rights suggesting people must state具体 demands instead of abstract ideals. The note critiques the philosophical ambiguity of freedom and calls for concrete expressions of what is desired or rejected.
Confusion Over Freedom and Law and Order in Public Debate
Sydney Harris argues that terms like freedom and law and order are used to serve self interest. He notes the paradoxes of majority rule versus minority rights and urges a semantic cleansing of political language to define genuine liberty.
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Hitler
Stalin
Confucius
High taxes deter investment and production
The piece argues that personal income taxes reaching 77 percent and corporate taxes at 52.8 percent curb investment and production. It notes politicians avoid raising the issue for fear of being accused of defending the rich, and discusses the harmful impact of the high corporate tax rate.
Henry Hazlitt on corporate taxes and investment
The essay argues that corporate income taxes around 50 percent deter investment by raising thresholds for profitable projects and reduce funds for new machinery. It notes historical tax rate increases from 1 percent in 1913 to about 52 percent today, urging that high taxes hurt jobs productivity wages and growth.
Clue to brain damage shown in facial expression study
Dr. Albert S. Roberts Jr of the University of Pennsylvania reports brain damaged patients often cannot sustain specific facial expressions and may also be unable to whistle or wink. The findings suggest deficits in nonverbal interpersonal signaling and appear in Archives of General Psychiatry.
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Albert S. Roberts Jr
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia
Roberts
Archives of
General Psychiatry
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