Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taking the time" is a constant theme of city people moving to small towns. They are almost bewildered that the townspeople have the time, and are willing to use it, to be helpful. After Mrs. Bernie made only two visits to the local Sears, Roebuck store, a clerk remembered her name, her children's ages and clothing sizes. Other assets: fruit and vegetables bought from neighboring farms, including a wonderfully fresh local apple juice. Down in Los Angeles, says Bernie, "socially you had to have a swimming pool. Here everyone goes to the Y." In Los Angeles, "you could...
...lonely fortyish souls walk their depressions around London. William is a bookstore clerk who has shed most of his past, including a cushy job in advertising, his wife and two daughters...
...provisions. The court ordered that the commission be dissolved in 30 days unless all of its members were appointed by the President, instead of just two under the present stat ute. The other six are four members appointed by Congress, plus the Secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House. There was the rub. According to the court, Congress may not appoint a body with enforcement powers; only the Executive can set up such a commission. A number of Senators, including Edward Kennedy, quickly said that they would introduce bills this week to conform to the ruling...
...costs and years of delay, the supersonic Concorde went into commercial service last week. An Air France plane made an inaugural flight from Paris to Rio de Janeiro; a British Airways craft flew from London to Bahrain. Aboard the Rio flight was Chris English, a TIME Washington Bureau copy clerk whose hobby is flying commercial airliners (since 1969 he has logged 412,000 air miles). TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel flew to Bahrain. Their accounts follow, along with their ratings of their flights on factors other than speed (four airplanes was the highest possible...
...only 15 or 20 Anglos. Ledesma's parents converted to Mormonism when he was four or five; missionaries had come to their home, then in Los Angeles, and, he says, "My ma had a hunch." This interest led to conversion for Ledesma, his mother (who now works as a clerk in a grocery store), and his father (who collects social security now after retiring from his own little business of collecting volcanic rock in Mexico for sale as ornaments in Southern California). While Ledesma says he is not ready to accept the church as true, many of the questions...