Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered the spy ship U.S.S. Liberty to leave its station in the Mediterranean off the Sinai Peninsula. The message failed to arrive until after Israeli jets attacked Liberty, mistaking it for an Egyptian vessel. Thirty-four U.S. sailors were killed in the attack. A woman clerk in the Pentagon had routed the Liberty order to the Philippines, in the direction of the only war she could think of at the time...
Thurmond Shaddix, a bank clerk in Atlanta, bought the stock of a machinery-parts manufacturer, Breeze Corporations, at 20. When the shares hit 37 in May, he asked his broker if he should sell. The broker advised holding for larger gains. The price has since dropped to about 14, giving Shaddix a 30% loss on an investment that once showed an 85% profit. "I'm really burned about that one," says Shaddix, who also has a small loss in some blue chips...
Acting City Clerk Paul Healy certified the results of the signatures count yesterday, and has sent the petition to the City Council which now has 20 days either to accept it without amendments or put it up to the voters' decision in November...
Approximately 3300 valid signatures (eight per cent of 'Cambridge's registered voters) are needed to put the petition on the ballot. When the 1776 petition sheets were submitted to the City Clerk last Monday, organizers of the referendum estimated that they bore the signatures of 9000 voters. By state law, each signer's name and address must be just as it appears on the voting lists, and it was anticipated that some of the 9000 signatures would be thrown out for failing to meet this requirement...
...signature count should be completed by this afternoon, Burns said. After that, the petitions will be validated by the City Clerk and sent on to the city council...