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...clerk in the Noblesville, Ind., small claims court was rather startled when Wendy Potasnik, 9, stood on tiptoe before his desk to file suit against Borden, Inc., the huge food and chemical-products company based in Columbus, Ohio. It seems that Wendy got to the bottom of a box of Cracker Jack one day and found no free toy, as advertised. Recalls her mother: "She was so sad-faced." Wendy wrote to Borden to complain, but received no response. So she and her father composed a complaint asking the court for a replacement box of Cracker Jack...
...what had seemed like common sense to the board looked like a travesty of justice to many other Leadwoodites. Soon Mayor Dick Hall, the city clerk, the city treasurer and most of the police department resigned in protest over the firing. Unfazed, the aldermen elected one of their own, Shelby Lawson, to replace Mayor Hall. With all the turmoil, however, she quit after two days. Thus it was that the Leadwood aldermen turned to the only man they could trust: Harvey Penberthy, who became the third mayor in less than a week. But Mayor Penberthy, who also runs the town...
DIED. Roberto Calvi, 62, scandal-plagued president of Milan's Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's largest privately owned bank, in whose subsidiaries a shortfall of $1.4 billion was discovered; of strangulation; in London. Calvi, who started 37 years ago as a clerk and went on to become one of Italy's leading financial operators, was nicknamed "God's Banker" because of the Vatican's substantial dealings with the Banco Ambrosiano. At the time of his death, he was appealing a four-year sentence for illicitly exporting $26.4 million in violation of Italian currency laws...
...mood replaced the earlier exuberance in Buenos Aires. The patriotic fervor seemed to have wilted like the faded blue-and-white flags that dangled from telephone wires under a winter drizzle. On hearing of the loss of Port Darwin and Goose Green last week, an almost tearful hotel desk clerk pleaded, "We simply have to win this war. No other war really mattered as much to our pride and our history as this-we must...
Coleman went on to top his class at Harvard Law School, and in 1948 became the Supreme Court's first black clerk, under Felix Frankfurter. A few years later he helped write the winning brief in Brown vs. Board of Education, which outlawed separate-but-equal schools. But he believes the battle is far from won. In a recent article, he wrote: "For black Americans, racial equality is a tradition without a past. Perhaps one day America will be colorblind. It takes an extraordinary ignorance of actual life in America today to believe that day has come...