Post Office Reform Faces First Hurdle in Congress
Nixon administration seeks to turn the Post Office Department into a government corporation but faces House committee opposition. Debates focus on who sets rates and wages. A compromise bill favored by Rep. Thaddeus Dulski would keep the Post Office as a government department with some reforms, while allowing a wage and rate framework overseen by commissions and Congress. The committee finished 35 days of hearings and plans executive session in mid September.
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Washington
Nixon Administration
Post Office Department
House Test Office and Civil Service Committee
Congress
Post Office Committee
Post Office
Associated Press
Studa
Coparation
Postal Union
Thaddeus J. Dulski
Dn.y
Postfice Committee
Dulski
Treasury
Congressional
House
Senate
Vate Board
Nader studies influential Washington law firm Covington & Burling
Ralph Nader and a Harvard team are preparing a critical investigative profile of Covington & Burling to reveal its power in Washington. The study, eight weeks in progress, faces firm resistance from partners who cite ethics and confidentiality.
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Nader
Washington
Ralph Nader
Harvard Law
Covington & Burling
Dean Acheson
Truman
Ics
Flrw
Federal Trade Commission
Food and Drug Administration
Philanthropist Likely To Head U S Arts Council
New York reports indicate Michael Straight, 53, writer and philanthropist, will be named chairman of the National Arts Council by President Nixon. The post has been vacant since March when Roger L. Stevens term expired. Straight, educated at Cambridge and LSE, has written fiction and nonfiction and is linked to charitable enterprises represented by Nixon’s firm.
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Wadler
U.S. Arts Council
New York
National Arts Council
Michael Straight
Nixon
Roger L. Stevens
Straight
Willard Straight
United States
Britain
Cambridge University
London School of Economics
Armored Car Guard Killed in San Francisco Robbery
Loomis Armored guard James Ogden, 53, of San Francisco, was shot dead as he entered the First Western Bank Fillmore branch with a money bag. Gunman fled on foot after grabbing the bag and Ogden died on arrival at Mission Emergency Hospital from chest and hip wounds.
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San. Francisco WA
Loomis
Fillmore
First Western Bank
Mission Emergency Hospital
James Ogden
San Francisco
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James H. Rademacher
Letter Cartiers’ Group
TRE Corporation
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Dooley’s Hardware Mart
le Worth
Long Beach
Tiaes Service
Thomas Austern
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The
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Franklin J. Roosevelt
Nixon, Mudge, Ross, Guthrie and Alexander
Carrington
Joseph McCarthy
Caravaggio
H-B
Toronto
Texaco
Westminster Memorial Park
Veterans Lawn
Beach Blvd
Westminster
Geneva
Twinoaks
Jefferson
Bill Ding
Loewe
Ravenport Teasiine
KYNNS
Pines
Torrance
Sartori
Now
Henredon
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