Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race to lead the vast new nation-to-be. One delegate tried to restrain the others by quoting an old tribal saying: "He who tries to eat before the others burns himself." Chief rival for the power of the mercurial Kasavubu is Patrice Lumumba, 33, onetime postal clerk in Stanleyville who served six months in jail in 1958 for embezzling $2,400 in postal money. He was arrested again after nationalist riots last November in which more than 20 were killed. Released from a Congo jail three weeks ago to lead his Congolese National Movement delegation at Brussels, he arrived...
...Roasting. In Detroit, Joseph J. Vranesich held up a grocery store, was informed by the clerk that the meat store next door had more money, thanked the clerk and went next door where police arrested...
...HIDING PLACE, by Robert Shaw (254 pp.; World; $3.50), concerns two British airmen who parachute over Bonn from a burning Lancaster during the closing months of World War II. A meek, wispy druggist's clerk takes them into his house, feeds them, and misdirects a Gestapo search party. The flyers congratulate themselves on their luck and hide out for a week in the clerk's wine cellar. But one morning when they awaken, they are chained and handcuffed...
...with the second-best suite. As soon as Johnson departed, Hubert was moved into the best suite. The advance team for Jack Kennedy was offered the second-best suite for their man, but the offer was declined. Jack preferred to be on the ground floor. The relieved room clerk assigned him to Room 103 and moved Missouri Representative Charlie Brown, the lonesome representative of absent Stuart Symington, into the second-best suite. A good time...
Billy Liar, by Keith Waterhouse. A young mortician's clerk in Yorkshire dreams of London but succeeds, in this slightly muddled comic novel, only in losing his head while all about him are keeping theirs...