Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout all this, Solzhenitsyn tried to get his works published in Russia. When, after a long battle, permission was refused to print Cancer Ward, he stormed furiously out of the Novy Mir office. A clerk who had helped him wrap up the huge manuscript reported his movements to the secret police, who later seized the book at the house of a friend to whom Solzhenitsyn had given it for safekeeping...
...hours before he arrived at the University of Texas tower to kill 13 people and wound 31 others. Charles Whitman strolled into an Austin hardware store and picked out several boxes of rifle cartridges. What was all the ammunition for? the clerk asked. "To shoot some pigs," Whitman answered calmly. In all its chilling banality, that scene is faithfully reproduced in this lightly fictionalized saga of a mass murderer. Self-consciously billed as the answer to the question "Why Gun Control?", Targets eventually falls victim to artistic overkill...
Muskie's family should be an asset to the ticket. He and his wife have five children ("three queens and two jacks"), aged 19 to seven. Jane Muskie, who was a Protestant and a Republican when, as a clerk in a Waterville dress shop, she first met her future husband in 1946, later converted to his political and religious faiths. They now live in a six-bedroom colonial house in Bethesda, Md., but also maintain a vacation cottage in Kennebunk Beach, Me. The Senator fishes and hunts in the Maine woods, sails off the coast, and is an amateur carpenter...
...daughter of a chemist and granddaughter of a Methodist minister, Judy was working as a 19-year-old file clerk for the Maryland Casualty Co. in Baltimore (which, as a native, she pronounces "Ballimer") when she met young Spiro Agnew, then a night student at the University of Baltimore Law School. She recalls their first date, when they went to the movies and later drank chocolate milkshakes at an A & W rootbeer stand. They were married 18 months later, in 1942, two days after he had graduated from Army Officers Candidate School as a second lieutenant...
...Rubia, 45, doubles as chairman of the Kenya Development Finance Co., a four-year-old, nonprofit organization created to help establish new industry. A member of the dominant Kikuyu tribe, from which Kenya draws a large proportion of its successful native businessmen, the missionary-educated Rubia was once a clerk in a local stock brokerage, later became a dry-goods retailer before serving from 1962 to 1967 as Nairobi's first African mayor. Rubia's development company recently doubled its capitalization to $9,000,000. "Industry does not generally attract outside investors," he says, "unless there is active...