Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boasted of their thefts. P.F., a 28-year-old Hispanic in Harlem, sounded like a shipping clerk reading off an invoice list as he told TIME Writer B.J. Phillips: "Well, I got a stereo worth $400, a dining room set that said $600 in the window, and some bedroom furniture, but not a whole suite. I got some tennis shoes, and a few things from the jewelry store, but I got there too late for anything really good. I got it all done in half an hour, that's how quick I was working." He paused...
...latest case involves a West German air force file clerk, Hans-Jurgen Jenzowski, who was arrested while handing secret documents to an East German female spy. In May, two other West Germans in sensitive positions-Dagmar Kahlig-Scheffler, a secretary in the Bonn chancellery's foreign affairs section, and Rolf Grunert, chief of the Hamburg police criminal division-were arrested for giving classified documents to East German agents...
...young woman in New York City charged sexist discrimination when the Yankees turned her down for a job-bat girl-that would have required her presence in the men's locker room. And where, if anywhere, are the merits of the argument advanced by the lefthanded postal clerk in Kentucky who charged that the U.S. Postal Service discriminated against southpaws by setting up its filing cases for the convenience of righthanded clerks...
Died. Roy Crane, 75, comic-strip cartoonist and creator of Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer; in Orlando, Fla. His swashbuckling grocery clerk, Washington Tubbs II, is credited with bringing adventure to the bland funny papers of the '20s when he fell in love with Tango the tiger tamer. Though other artists adopted Tubbs and Friend Captain Easy, Crane collaborated on Navy Pilot Buz until his death...
...Summa lost $132 million, mainly on casinos and hotels in Las Vegas. During those years, all of its competitors were in the black. The top Summa officers prospered, however; as the company lost more than $52.2 million in 1975-76. Gay, who started off in Hughes" service as a clerk, drew $761,131 in salary and bonuses. Most startling was the decline of Summa's cash position. From 1966 to 1976, Hughes pumped $715 million into Summa. Yet in March of this year, Summa had only $94 million left. Declared an alarmed Lummis: "There's going to have...