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...Smith, a 5-ft. 9-in., red-haired man with a squeaky voice, moved into the walnut-veneered chairman's office on the 14th floor of the General Motors building in Detroit, he was expected to blend into the woodwork. Smith had joined GM as an accounting clerk in 1949, spent his entire career with the company and was unknown outside the automobile industry...
...City Clerk Paul E. Healy took his 12th turn as presiding officer, introducing the participants and administering the oaths. "The only reason we have this ceremony is because they come up one at a time," he said jokingly. "Sometimes I wish we could swear them in all at once...
...offers cautious consolation to those fearful of the months to come. "You would have to go back to the winter of 1977 to see one outbreak after another of record-breaking temperatures," said Long-Range Forecaster Donald Gilman. "The odds are against it." But a Chicago department-store sales clerk has her own fatalistic interpretation of the abnormally cold weather: "This is the payback for the little baby winter we had last year...
...shoppers in the mood to buy the best and the brightest, from $600 home computers to $300 cashmere bathrobes. At Manhattan's Bonwit Teller, customers have already taken home 2,300 pairs of mink earmuffs at $85 each. According to Lien Dang, a Neiman-Marcus sales clerk in Houston, consumers want "something wild, something different, something out of this world...
...bring people in as early as 5 a.m. to restock the shelves," groans E. Erick Gaither, manager of a Sears store in Tucker, Ga. At Palo Alto's Emporium-Capwell, employees are often so harried they forget to take their breaks. Said Heidi Thomas, a clerk in petite women's wear: "Last Saturday we were swamped. A lot of shoppers had clothes draped over their arms. I was so busy I couldn't handle...