Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hotel in case, say, a New York-to-Nantucket flight must be diverted to Boston. Columnist Baker recalls one too typical experience. Before buying his ticket in New York City, he asked if there would be a problem with fog at Nantucket. As Baker tells it, "The clerk said no, Nantucket was fine, so I went. Of course, it was so fogged in that the pilot couldn't even find the island. We wound up in Boston, where I had to spend the night at a hotel. It seems that the airline just wasn't going to give...
...fitting suits of black serge, his black turtleneck shirts, his pointed shoes that were always worn at the heels and covered with a faint dusting of powdered concrete from the walls of unfinished buildings ..." Vost dwells in a characterless (and imaginary) European town, works as "a mere clerk in a dismal pharmacy" and plays doting father to his teen-age daughter Mirabelle. Two other women dominate his thoughts: his late wife Claire and his mother Eva, an inmate of La Violaine, the town's prison for women...
...dubbed him the Gentleman Bandit after he had held up six Wilmington area stores last winter. Not only did he brandish a chrome-plated pistol, but he was a natty dresser who always wore a fedora and treated his victims with elaborate courtesy. He once even apologetically told a clerk, "I wouldn't do this if I didn't have to." After seven holdup witnesses picked the same man out of a police lineup last February, the authorities indicted an unlikely suspect: the Rev. Bernard T. Pagano, 53, then assistant pastor at St. Mary's Refuge...
...Wolfgang Baumann, 29, and his wife Renate, 26, a clerk and a secretary who live in a pleasant, suburban Bonn apartment, earn a combined gross salary of $2,500 a month. Taxes take nearly $1,000 of that, and they manage to save only about $100 a month. But they have a six-year-old BMW, holiday abroad every year and are preparing to move to another apartment. When they do, the moving and redecorating will be done cheaply by "friends" from the black labor market. Says Wolfgang: "We have no complaints. Life has been very comfortable...
...supermarket age we are like a merchant trying to operate a cracker barrel corner grocery store with the methods and equipment of 1900," said Burger in 1970. He spoke from experience. When he came on the court in 1969, he asked to have some papers duplicated. The clerk had to explain to him that the Supreme Court Justices had no copying machine. Burger and other bench and bar leaders have pushed with some success for more efficient administration. "There was a day back when a judge said, "I'll start my court at 9 or 10 or 11 o'clock...