Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attorney for the building owner complained that the moving man had come nowhere near justifying his claim. Superior Court Judge Reuben Lurie agreed, and he upheld a motion asking for a directed verdict in favor of the defendant. Under Massachusetts law, there was only one formality left. The clerk intoned: "Mr. Foreman and members of the jury, hearken to your verdict. The jury finds for the defendant by order of the court. So say you, Mr. Foreman? So say you all, members of the jury?" To everyone's astonishment, Juror Claude Solana said...
...Wounds. The political transformation has altered many lives. Some have benefited from it; others have come to grief. Everywhere, people talk endlessly about the past and compare their sufferings, opening old wounds and cursing those responsible for them. "People must talk about these things and keep talking," says Museum Clerk Karel Nigrin, 64, who spent eight years in solitary and seven at hard labor as a political prisoner. "This regime has allowed them to talk like no other Communist regime ever...
Outside jobs are, however, permitted. Although it can mean 16-hour work- days, moonlighting reservists are commonplace, as civilians struggle to adjust their incomes to military pay scales. "I took a pay cut of $300 per month," says Specialist Four David Waters, a steel-company billing clerk now with the 151st. "Did it hurt? You better believe it." For some reservists, call-up has knocked up to $10,000 off their annual earnings. Weekdays at 5 p.m., Airman First Class Mike Fields quits the 445th Military Airlift Wing's administrative offices at Dobbins Air Force Base outside Marietta...
Boredom prompts men to take pride in goldbricking, inducing added ennui. Even the crack 120th TFS at Phan Rang has an accountant and a graduate in English slinging hash, a school principal pulling security guard, and a Denver assistant district attorney slaving as a clerk in the base legal office...
...Viet Nam troop levels have been stabilized, many reservists feel there is no longer an overriding need for them to stay. "We don't have any idea when it will end," complains Airman First Class Eugene Potter, 21, who left his salesman's job to shuffle papers as a clerk with the 445th Wing. "If we had some kind of idea what we will be doing, we could make plans...