Word: clerke
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Into the Senate committee hearing room came a wan blonde. Her hair was done up in a sort of beehive style. Her name was Gertrude Novak, and she was a $7,385-a-year clerk of the Senate Small Business Committee. Appearing last week before the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration as the first public-hearing witness on the affairs of Bobby Baker, former secretary to the Democratic Senate Majority, she told a story of stock ventures and mortgages that would have baffled brighter-looking blondes...
...prison sentence of one to five years. For the same crime a sentence of two to seven years can be given in Alabama, and up to ten years in Florida, Indiana, or North Carolina. Many states also penalize the minister or official who performs the marriage ceremony and the clerk who issues the license. In Wyoming the guilty minister will receive a fine, or one to five years in prison, or both...
Those trips to Italy and Spain, as well as to most other European countries, present something of a hotel problem, in that police regulations usually re quire the desk clerk to collect the passport of each guest. This may be handled by taking separate rooms or by relying on the continental savoir faire of the clerk, who checks the man's passport only and waves the lady through...
...image he always projected was of a hearty backslapper who stopped to chat with a sidewalk watermelon vendor in Beirut, who invited a Pakistani camel driver to "come and see us, heah?" and who gave out ballpoint pens wherever he went. "He shakes hands with everybody," said a Thai clerk after Johnson stormed Bangkok, "no matter if they are dirty or what." Johnson knows scores of foreign leaders, but their meetings rarely went much beyond the handshaking technique that he calls "pressing the flesh and looking them...
...protégé is Goodyear's present chairman, Edwin Joel Thomas, 64, who came to Goodyear as a part-time clerk when he was 17 and began taking over active management under Litchfield 19 years ago. A solidly built, balding man with unfailing memory and considerable charm, Thomas is responsible for Goodyear's modern diversified look, runs the company in tandem with President Russell De Young, 54, an up-from-the-ranks production expert who is heir apparent. "It was like getting the first olive out of the bottle," says Thomas. "Doing research on tires, we found...