Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOHN DEAN. Before the Senate Watergate committee, he seemed to be only a minor functionary, a modest clerk. Now he emerges as having played a key White House role, first in making sure the cover-up held through the election, then in advising Nixon on how to cope as it fell apart in early...
...Madam Forelady, has the jury reached its verdict?" asked the clerk. It had, replied Sybil Kucharski, dressed in blue jeans and a gray turtleneck sweater. In a firm, assured voice, she answered "Not guilty" eighteen times as the counts, first against Mitchell, then against onetime Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, were read. When the litany exonerating Mitchell was completed, one of his defense attorneys let out a small whoop of joy and tried to embrace his client; the undemonstrative Mitchell shook him off. "You've got the jury system and it always works," he said calmly afterwards. Stans was less...
EMILY SCHWARTZ HARRIS. Remembered by her Alpha Chi Omega sorority sisters at Indiana University as a "good dresser," she taught junior high school English for a year in Bloomington. Last year she and her husband William moved to Berkeley. She worked as a clerk typist at the University of California and became deeply involved in radical activities. She headed the Oakland Chino Defense Committee, which raised funds for the legal defense of members of the Venceremos and others accused of aiding a prison escape...
Vellucci read a resolution to City Clerk Paul Healy in a recent meeting and was interrupted by Ackermann, who asked that Vellucci re-read sections of the resolution. He then spoke at an extremely slow pace. Ackermann interrupted again and said he did not have to be so deliberate in his reading. "I know you can't hear things well," Vellucci retorted. "So I'm going to re-read this so that even you can understand it. I know you're a little slow at these things...
...then went into town for groceries and some more gear (mostly in the way of streamers--artificial flies made to resemble minnows in the water and fished "wet", or under water--as opposed to being fished "dry", or on the surface of the water). I talked tackle to the clerk in the hardware store, bought what he recommended. One of the people with me, using spinning tackle, got sold something called a Super-Duper, but he was lucky enough to lose it on his third or fourth cast, so he did not waste all day fishing with a Super-Duper...