Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While in law school, Goldberg worked part time as a clerk in a Chicago law office. Summers, he signed on as a construction laborer, once stepped on a rusty nail and had to wait out the then manda tory period of a week before he could collect workmen's compensation. He could not afford the loss of pay. "Ever since," he recalls, "I have not been friendly to the idea of waiting periods. Family needs don't wait...
...unilateral Western dis armament. Together, they stood charged* of planning a giant sitdown demonstration in Parliament Square, of "inciting members of the public" to attend even after the Ministry of Works declined permission for the rally, and of being "likely to persist in such unlawful conduct." Asked the court clerk: "Are any of you willing to be bound over to be of good behavior and keep the peace?" Philosopher Russell shouted his answer...
Willis grew up on a Maryland farm, attended a one-room school. He worked his way through George Washington University as an auto salesman, usher and hotel clerk, rose from country school teacher to superintendent of schools in Yonkers and Buffalo, N.Y. In 1953 Willis replaced Harvard-bound Herold Hunt, the man hired to clean up the political mess that disgraced Chicago schools under the late Mayor Ed Kelly. Willis clinched Hunt's reforms and followed with his own equally decisive ones...
...through a two-day game, and some of them, says a Hancock Dersonnel man, make "horrifying" decisions in play. Hancock uses the "In-30x" game: each player is given 100 typical memos, letters and records, then must act on every one. What to do for a clerk celebrating her 25th anniversary with the company? (Wise answer: Send her a cake with 25 candles.) What to do with a small company that has just renewed its group insurance? (Wrise answer: Ask its boss to lunch and try to sell him still more insurance...
...Dominican north coast. Dr. Alejo Martinez, 32, a physician, answered a knock on his door. Submachine guns chattered, and Martinez fell dead on the porch. About the same time, in downtown Sosúa, a telephone call sent an office clerk named Pedro Clisante, 28, put-putting away on his motorbike on an errand that would take him past a military post. As Clisante approached, a soldier blasted him off his bike. Two days earlier, near the provincial capital of Santiago, Epedio Jesús Cabrera had picked up a "hitchhiker" and was later found knifed to death...