Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...literally a day for the books. In addition to the Puzo package, Koster was chasing rights to publish works by Franz Kafka. She was outbid by Pocket Books, who paid $210,000. The Prague pension clerk would have been fascinated by the rituals of a modern paperback auction. He had envisioned the adrenal new world in his novel Amerika. But could he have imagined that he would be in six figures...
...cooking at home, they prefer costlier foods and wines. They pay freely for child care, and the working wife needs her own full wardrobe of office clothes. Their philosophy is expressed by a community service representative for Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, Robert Molina, 24, whose wife is a clerk in the sheriffs office: "When you see something on TV, you crave...
...thing about all this controversy. It's made a lot of people start to think a lot more seriously about us," So says J.J.J. Wilken, the town clerk and unofficial historian of the 374-sq.-mi. territory of Walvis Bay. Until international attention focused on independence for Namibia, few people had much reason to think at all about this spectacular but isolated deep-water port on the continent's barren southwestern coastline. Apart from the harbor and its railroad connections, Walvis Bay has little to recommend even to its inhabitants: 10,000 whites of mixed British, Dutch...
Looking pale and drawn, the former leader of Britain's Liberal Party was driven last week to the police station in the small Somerset town of Minehead. A court clerk asked whether his name was John Jeremy Thorpe. The answer was an all but inaudible "It is." Following a hearing that lasted a scant 21 minutes, the slight, dapper Thorpe, 49, was released on $10,000 bail after being formally charged with conspiracy to murder. The alleged target: Norman Scott, 37, a down-and-out male model who 2½ years ago publicly claimed that he and Thorpe...
...recorded voice says reassuringly, "Your call is being automatically held..." And held and held. Waits of up to ten minutes are common and some are as much as 35 minutes. The volume of calls is up about 35% at most airlines, and each call lasts longer while the clerk figures out the lowest fare and plots the routes over which it is applied. One Eastern reservations clerk spent three hours on the phone with a couple, reckoning a 50-stop trip under the line's $302 to $323 fare that entitles a traveler to unlimited mileage?from Atlanta to Acapulco...