Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When three men and two women checked into a La Paz hotel in February, an alert desk clerk recalled that one of the men had checked in four years before under a different name and passport. Bolivian police arrested the man, who turned out to be a Uruguayan wanted in Miami for drug trafficking. The cops let the others go, but BNDD agents were convinced that the ones who got away were important and traced the two couples to Mexico City. There they were identified as Jean-Paul Angeletti, 28, a Corsican, and Lucien Sarti, 34, a native of Marseille...
Plant manager, college registrar, pharmacy clerk, teletype operator, postal worker, security officer and steel mill worker. These are but a handful of some 60 types of jobs held by 95 New York City drug users who cooperated anonymously in a recent study of addicts at work. Their revelations confirm in detail what other studies have suggested: addicts on the payroll bring financial loss and widespread criminality to U.S. business and industry...
...doesn't have it. His personality leaves me cold." If the campaign turns out to focus on personality, McGovern's chances apparently would improve. "He doesn't doubletalk; he knows how to make himself a part of the people rather than just a politician," argues Billing Clerk Lynda Bialy, a young voter in Buffalo, N.Y. Surprisingly, only one out of seven who expect to vote for McGovern will do so on the basis of any specific issue, although inconsistently, two-thirds of the panel predict that the campaign will be fought primarily on issues. For the first...
...lack of credibility; even four out of ten of his backers complain of this. One of them, Carol Terry, a Plainville, Conn., housewife, says: "He hasn't informed us enough to keep us abreast of what's going on." A minority view is that of Hotel Desk Clerk Mrs. Irene Wells of Pinellas Park, Fla., who declares: "Some things it doesn't help us to know...
...pound, where it had been towed for illegal parking. But when the fuzz checked their files, Ferlinghetti suddenly found himself behind bars on a 1970 charge of selling pornography. As principal owner of the City Lights bookstore, he had been cited as a co-defendant after the clerk was busted for selling Zap Comics. Before the last hearing, though, the clerk was killed in a motorcycle accident. "So," said Ferlinghetti, "I thought the case had been dismissed." Two days later, the case actually was dismissed, leaving the poet free but still fuming. "It was an absurd incident," he declared...