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...reason that Blacks become "suspects" whenever they enter retail establishments is that such a transformation protects others--WASPs, white ethnics, Jews, Asians, whomever--from having to reevaluate their images of Black people. If a sales clerk or undercover security guard has a mental picture of all Blacks as disreputable ghetto dwellers, then the presence of a petty bourgeois, upper-middle class, or top drawer Black person threatens his world view and, in a fashion, his own sense of security...
...income families often slide into the lower class when they try to get by on their own. Reason: they may have the double burden of child custody and a lack of marketable job skills. Carol Kuypers, 32, of Harper Woods in suburban Detroit, earns $13,500 as an accounting clerk, or about 61 cents a week over the limit for getting federal food assistance. The unmarried mother of a 15-month-old son, she has to spend $200 a month for day care, which eats up about one-quarter of her take-home pay. For help with room and board...
LONDON--A newspaper reported yesterday that an undercover Syrian agent worked as a clerk for 20 years in the British Embassy in Damascus and tricked a diplomat there into signing a visa for Nezar Hindawi...
...Sunday Times did not identify the Palestinian clerk who allegedly worked for Syria, but said he was a senior assistant in the visa section. It said he was about 50 and had gone to Syria as a child...
...late Michael A. Sullivan was City Councillor from 1936 until 1949; he was succeeded by his son, Edward J. Sullivan, who presided as Mayor in 1956 to 1957 and is currently the Clerk of Court in Middlesex County. Walter J. Sullivan, an Independent--or moderate conservative--presently serving his third term as Mayor of Cambridge, has been on the City Council since...