Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high school equivalency diploma and a voracious appetite for reading. An Army buddy had introduced him to Gerald M. Loeb's Battle for Investment Survival, and Stein was hooked. He read every stock-market book that he could find, and landed a position as a $50-a-week clerk. Then he shifted from job to job in several Wall Street houses, always moving...
...walked through the store, John was followed every step of the way by closed-circuit TV cameras that transmitted his image to a monitoring room upstairs. He found the Protectalarm, pulled out his checkbook, and waited patiently while a new clerk figured out how to work the still camera that photographed every customer paying by check. In her confusion, the clerk wrapped the package without first removing the tags. One of them was a wafer, specially radiated to set off a Knogo sonic alarm in the doorway of the store. John had barely reached the sidewalk when he was surrounded...
...time the tearful clerk admitted her mistake and the stony looks turned to embarrassed smiles, John decided to call it a day. Exhausted, nerves frazzled, he walked home-carefully skirting shadows. He took a trifle longer than usual to open his triple-locked door. The delay proved unfortunate. Before John could slither inside his urban fortress, three thugs lurking in the vestibule relieved him of his wallet, his watch and his girl friend's Protectalarm. Then, for good measure, they gave him a whiff of his own Mace...
...elected five student directors, a treasurer, and a clerk last night. The new directors are John F. Drewry '71 of Winthrop House and Shaker Heights, Ohio; Stanley S. Jones Jr. '71 of Quincy House and Atlanta, Ga.; Ronald T. Luke '70 of Kirkland House and Dallas, Tex.; Gary L. Rosenthal '71 of Leverett House and Tulsa, Okla.; and Charles E. Talmadge '71 of Eliot House and Houston, Tex.; the clerk is Thomas G. Stembert '71 of Quincy House and Vienna, Austria; and the treasurer is Scott A. Abell '72 of Matthews Hall Chagrin Falls, Ohio...
...When Brentano's bought Phillips," claims Ann Williams '69-2, a former Brentano clerk and a member of the labor committee, "the wage scale at Phillips was higher than it is now. Since then," she said, "they have hired new people at a lower rate of minimum wage...