Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just before last Christmas, a racing-car driver entered the museum-like sanctum of Tiffany & Co. in Manhattan to buy a diamond ring for himself. A clerk told him that such a purchase would be "vulgar" for a man. The driver argued: "I'm a customer, and your job is to give me what I want." Sniffed the clerk: "What you want is your business. What we sell is our business...
DIED. Clifford F. Hood, 84, president of U.S. Steel from 1953 to 1959; in Palm Beach, Fla. Starting as a clerk in U.S. Steel-owned American Steel & Wire Co. in 1917, Hood served as that firm's president for twelve years (1938-49) before moving over to the top post of another subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. In 1951 he was responsible for the construction of the $400 million Fairless Works near Morrisville, Pa., one of the largest steel complexes ever built, and two years later he won the presidency of "Big Steel...
...Cairo some days ago, an Egyptian bank clerk asked a foreign customer what the weather was like in Israel; the clerk and her friends are planning a spring vacation there. Easter should be particularly busy. Many of Egypt's 6 million Coptic Christians intend to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, which is their most holy city. Huge numbers of Israelis are eager to see the pyramids, which some think their forefathers built (historians are doubtful...
Robert Campo, currently chairman of the Board of Assessors in Somerville, is running as an independent, but should not be taken too seriously. Cavanaugh has the almighty first position on the ballot, as well as the enthusiastic blessings of those who are aware of his work as clerk of the probate courts over the past year...
Former Somerville mayor and current City Clerk William J. Donovan, a political antagonist of Marie Howe and who admits having "no great love" for the Howes, had his property assessment raised by Howe from $10,600 to $14,000 in 1976. Howe says the property was previously under-valued, and that the 40-per-cent assessment increase was long overdue. But the property itself had no buildings that could have increased in value. "The land was vacant," Donovan remembers. "He couldn't justify the assessment." Donovan, too, received an abatement from the rest of the city's assessors...