Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the taping, two cameras cut neatly from attorney to witness, with closeups and insets of exhibits to break up the visual monotony. Objections raised by counsel were noted, and later the judge reviewed that part of the testimony; if he sustained an objection, the court clerk simply erased the offending questions and answers. Otherwise the testimony was unedited...
...Wilson becomes chief operating officer, succeeding Henry Schachte, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 60. Wilson, who was born in New York City, joined Thompson at 26 as a mail clerk determined to get into advertising. He grabbed the first account-executive job offered and stuck to that side of the business, becoming a vice president in 1956 and a senior vice president in 1964. A towering 6 ft. 4 in., he strides through the agency halls at a lope, dropping in on creative and ac count people; he would rather see them in their offices than summon them...
Firmly against too many liberties where dress is concerned, Burger has ordered Clerk Rodak to draw up a new, more detailed dress code. Rodak reports: "It will say that male lawyers should wear a dark suit, with a vest if possible, a conservative tie and black shoes." Women will be discouraged from wearing sweaters or pants. "The dress," says one Justice, "should be appropriate to a serious undertaking such as a court proceeding...
...sketches are pretty wispy stuff, ranging from a government clerk sneezing on a general at a most inopportune moment to a dental student ecstatically extracting a tooth to a virago making life pluperfect hell for a gout-prone bank manager. The second half of the show is distinctly brighter and breezier than the first. The entire cast is not only exemplary, but extraordinarily versatile, and Christopher Plummer, as usual, provides superior acting with facile, enviable ease...
This was the presiding judge's description of the five-month trial that concluded last week in his Sacramento, Calif, courtroom. The plaintiff was Albert Gonzales, 32, a former grocery clerk, who charged that his doctor, Orthopedic Surgeon John Nork, 45, had performed a back operation that was not only unnecessary but has prevented successful treatment for a cancer that is slowly killing him. As a result of Nork's admission of guilt, Judge B. Abbott Goldberg awarded Gonzales a huge malpractice judgment. He ordered Mercy Hospital, where the operation was performed, and Nork to share in payments...