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Noting that the official logo "is very hard to read," one insider says the Yale Co-op offers a more standard football-shaped emblem crafted by a clerk there. In fact, Co-op President Dick Ballard reports brisk business, listing the numerous items on which their logo appears: "It is on everything. From the preppy button-down shirts to the LaCoste-looking shirts to the sweat-shirts to t-shirts to glasses--highballs and shot glasses--to lucite letter openers. These are sold exclusively at the Yale...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: The making of the 100th Game | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...clerk at the New Haven Superior Court now says there is no record of any such trial--which is a good thing, because the judge, in the end, said that after 13 months' probation, the record would be expunged. Apparently, it was. Jamie, John, and Sarah were lucky...

Author: By Thomas J.meyer, | Title: The New Haven Nine | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...itself. The dislocations and arbitrariness of all things Slakan are meant to evoke a world without fixed meanings. Everywhere Petworth sees "the sign floating free of the signified." Nearly everyone in the country speaks some English, but it is not English as Petworth knows it ("Now, Pervert," a desk clerk mumbles, "this card I write for you, it is your hotel identay'ii, ja?"). Through Petworth's perplexities with words-and with such other languages as sex, politics and food-Bradbury suggests that life is rather like a monetary system. It can proceed only by a kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: High Currency | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...Abolished the in-house promotional exam for clerks, one designed by representatives of the clerk's own union. Why? Because some politically well-connected clerks didn't pass it and complained to the School Committee. As a result, 16 were promoted who only passed the general Civil Service Exam, which has no typing or stenography test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: School Committee | 11/2/1983 | See Source »

Incumbent Saundra Graham and challenger Winston C. Forde did not file statements in the city clerk's office before the 5 p.m. deadline. City Clerk Paul Healy said that the two candidates will not be penalized because a grace period is included in the state...

Author: By I. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Council Candidates Get Most Contributions Ever | 11/1/1983 | See Source »

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