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...week-old military government is part of an official campaign to "Keep Rangoon Pleasant." The cleanup is an attempt to polish the military's tarnished image -- and that has doomed it from the start. "They think we will like them if they clean up the city," says a shop clerk on Merchant Street. "We will never forget or forgive what they have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma A Nakedly Military Government | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...regular business, HSA student elected six new student directors. A clerk and a treasurer were also elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 11/10/1988 | See Source »

...administrator of a Florida psychiatric hospital stares blankly into the television camera as the reporter bores in on him. "What kind of degree does your admissions clerk have?" asks the correspondent, who has already shown us how the hospital readily admits children for extended stays. "I'm not really sure," responds the administrator wanly. "Well, yesterday I looked," the reporter says. "He wasn't a nurse. He wasn't a doctor. Isn't that a little strange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Out of The Mouths of Babes | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...Drug Store at 29 JFK Street suffered water and smoke damage, said Alexander Goldfine, a clerk at the store...

Author: By Kirsten L. Parkinson, | Title: Fire Causes $ 100,000 In Damage to Eatery | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

...laughter doesn't faze Welliver, 42, a frozen-foods shipping clerk in Omaha. He is in ecstasy here on a stage at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, harmonizing with one of the finest quartets in the land, at the annual convention of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. Welliver has paid $20 to "Sing with the Champs" -- an opportunity for rank-and-file barbershoppers to sing briefly onstage with a championship quartet -- and he is paired with SPEBSQSA's 1986 gold medalists, a foursome of Missourians called Rural Route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Going for the Bird | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

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