Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as Speaker, Albert is rarely in the public eye. He lives quietly in a modest apartment in northwest Washington with his wife Mary, a former Pentagon clerk. They have two children: David, 18, a student at Harvard, and Mary Frances, 25, who teaches high school in Washington. To keep his weight down, Albert jogs and swims. He is seldom seen on the cocktail circuit, devotes himself to his family and his work, and his strongest expletive is "jeepers creepers...
Promises, Promises involves a struggling insurance company clerk, C.C. "Chuck" Baxter. Baxter wins his way to happiness and a key to the executive washroom by loaning out his $86.50 a month apartment to libidinous vice presidents and their ambitious secretaries. In the process, Baxter manages to fall in love with the very cafeteria waitress who is involved with the almighty Director of Personnel. Aha! Complication! Misunderstanding! Humor! Agony! Unfortunately, we don't get all that...
John Herfort graduated from Harvard in 1968 and from the Law School three years later. He worked as a clerk in the First Circuit Court for a year, and when that job ended he went to work in the Department of Justice under Elliot Richardson...
...military-hospital clerk in the Nile Delta, Sadat for much of his political life had seemed to be not much more than a devoted epigone of Egypt's beloved leader. In fact, he was somewhat the more impetuous and strong-headed of the two. During World War II, for instance, Sadat was jailed as a political subversive after the failure of two absurdly bungled plots to smuggle a former Egyptian general over to the Germans. First a getaway car broke down, then an escape plane crashed on takeoff. Along with two Nazi spies who were his accomplices, Sadat...
Along the way, the chairman has shown a refreshing tendency to get out of any business that was unsuccessful-or that merely seemed ripe for sale at a profitable price. Dart started out as a drugstore clerk and rose to become general manager of the Walgreen drug chain in nine years; then he moved on through other executive posts in the drug business and wound up as chairman of the Rexall drug chain, which he turned into the foundation of Dart Industries. That did not prevent him from selling off the Rexall stores piecemeal, until today there are only...