Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...floor. With battery-powered transmitters no bigger than a cigarette pack, the new gadgets need no outside power source and can eavesdrop for two whole years without attention. In one East European capital, a foreign service officer first learned that his living room was bugged when a U.S. embassy clerk telephoned to report verbatim what he had been saying -two miles away. The clerk had accidentally picked up the bug's transmissions on his short-wave radio...
...body of Marta Santa Cruz, 22, was discovered by two teenagers. Marta had apparently been raped, then strangled. Her hands and feet were bound, and flesh scrapings found under her fingernails indicated a desperate struggle with her attacker. Daughter of a retired Bolivian army colonel. Marta worked as a clerk-typist at the Washington, D.C. Hospital Center, was a frequent guest at parties given by Bolivia's Ambassador Victor Andrade. ¶ In North Buffalo. N.Y.. frightened parents confiscated their children's bikes, Bible-class attendance dwindled, and one cautious housewife locked all three doors to her house...
...union to the Disciples of Christ, which would make a denomination of some 4,000,000 members in 14,000 congregations. Back at once came a favorable reply suggesting that merger conferences begin in September. The delegates also voted to "respond affirmatively" to the proposal of Presbyterian Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake for a merger of Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Methodists and the United Church of Christ (TIME cover, May 26). Said pleased President Herbster: "We promised in the beginning to be not only a united church but a uniting church...
Born. To Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 47, Maine's first popularly elected Democratic U.S. Senator and previously its first Catholic Governor, and Jane Frances Gray Muskie, 34, Republican-bred former Down East dress-shop clerk: their fifth child, second son; in Washington...
...wrote a little poetry on the side and who thought so much of his talent that in 1816 he decided to move himself and his family to Paris. At twelve, the glazier's son became a messenger boy for a process server's office and then a clerk for a bookstore-jobs that opened up to him every corner of Paris. He sketched everything he saw, finally started studying art with an academician whose idea of instruction was to have his pupils copy plaster casts hour after hour. "This is not life," said Daumier, and he struck...