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...double life during World War II, when he served a village near Dover as vicar and simultaneously worked as a coalfield pitman. Hampered by unenthusiastic superiors and sheer exhaustion. Strong had to quit for a while, but in 1955 he took a job as an oil-meter checker in a factory, was appointed curate in Harlington, and won the backing of his bishop...
...smile stretching his brush mustache, his arm half-raised in greeting with fingers waggling briskly, Anastas Mikoyan, the Kremlin's No. 2 man, was busier than a checker in a supermarket on a Saturday afternoon. In the space of a week, he whirled through official and unofficial Washington, raced on to luncheons, dinners and informal question games in Cleveland. Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles. In between appointments, he inspected stores, gave candy to a baby, shook hands along auto assembly lines, peered at new gadgets and chomped on an airline's free Chiclets...
...Superba. Checker Motors Corp., makers of Checker taxicabs, next month will begin production of a family-type passenger car called the Superba, which it claims will "perform like a pleasure car and take punishment like a taxicab." The new car, powered by a six-cylinder engine, will be about 198 in. long and somewhat higher and narrower than most U.S. cars, sell in the $2,500 price range...
...dozen years ago Cleveland-born Grace Hoffman, now 34. was working as a cashier and bar checker at a watering hole on Broadway hard by the Metropolitan Opera House. Last week she turned up at the place across the street, this time as Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. To cover the 100-odd yards, she had to travel to the musical capitals of Europe and back again...
...Leading to the question: "How many chicks should a chick checker check if a chick checker should check chicks...