Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many ways, Haynsworth is the stereotype of a courtly Southern judge. He combs his gray hair nearly straight back, with just a slant to the right, and carries himself with an almost fastidious precision. He is, as one former law clerk describes him, "a quiet, serious, somewhat shy man who displays a good sense of humor once you know him." This trait emerges occasionally in mild, improbable pranks, as when his neighbors recently bought a new lawnmower. Haynsworth showed up with a beribboned bottle of Fresca to christen the new machine...
...fighting for a potentially lucrative ticket market with much the same type of operation. Participating entertainment enterprises like theaters and sports arenas are linked by sales outlets in such spots as railroad stations, travel agencies, department stores and even supermarkets. At most of those locations, buyers tell a sales clerk what event they want to see and when. By pushing buttons on a console, the clerk queries a regional computer's "memory bank" and gets an instant reading on what seats are available. Customers then can have their tickets printed electronically on the spot. The T.R.S. Ticketron system charges...
...owners reported no indication that anyone had broken in to use the phone. If Kennedy had later made the twelve calls that the paper said he placed from the pay phone at the Shiretown Inn, where he was staying in Edgartown, it is highly unlikely that the night clerk would not have seen or heard him from his desk 20 feet away. The Shiretown has no telephones in its rooms...
There also appeared to be a dark side to the lives of the other victims. "Gibby" Folger had been an aimless heiress since her graduation from Radcliffe, drifting from a Harvard graduate course to a job as a clerk in a New York bookshop to volunteer political work for Robert Kennedy and Thomas Bradley, the Negro Los Angeles mayoral candidate. She had most recently been a welfare worker. Author and Artist Barnaby Conrad, a family friend, described her as "square in the best sense of the word," but others who knew her say that she had changed in the year...
...never returned to its old operating pace, and a week of wildcat strikes and slowdowns that greeted the introduction of a new timetable last fall. One commuter recently phoned for train information and was told by a recorded voice that his call was being held for the next available clerk. In the background a live voice snarled: "I am not the next available clerk, goddammit...