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...nonchalance. "This thing's been happening since they made county commissioners," says Parker, who at 76 is two years older than the state of Oklahoma. "Sure I took kickbacks. I never asked a man for it. They always gave it to me." Says Betty Eisenhour, who as clerk of Canadian County was an unwitting intermediary for the graft: "I always wondered why I was paying middlemen. Now I know. The commissioners were good old boys, but just between you and me, they were thieves...
...eight-year-old in the drab Midlands city of Leicester, he read about the atom in a children's encyclopedia. An atom, the credulous lad was told, resembles the ulterior of a cathedral, in which tennis balls-the electrons-bounce about violently. This fanciful account gave the factory clerk's son "the first sharp mental excitement I ever had." He never quite got over...
...authority in the fledgling nation. The bailiff cried the traditional "oyez, oyez," and the eight Justices stood silently behind the wooden bench. O'Connor then took a second oath ("I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States ..."), and a clerk of the court helped Justice O'Connor slip on a black robe over her lavender-colored dress. With a quick smile and a sure step, O'Connor took her place beside her colleagues. Like the opinions she has handed down in her two years on the Arizona State Court...
...graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1964, Norma Ar-raez's real goal was to be a painter. But not a starving one. So instead she started out as a fashion illustrator. Wanderlust struck in 1966, however, and she joined an airline as a reservations clerk. On trips abroad, she always stopped in London to pick up far-out fashions, and in 1968 she and Mohammed Houssein Kamali, her Persian-student husband of one year, opened a New York shop of imported clothes...
DIED. James S. Kemper, 94, tough, no-nonsense Chicago insurance executive and founder of the Kemper Group, one of the world's largest diversified insurance and financial organizations; in Chicago. Kemper, who began his career as a junior insurance clerk in his native Ohio, became manager of the Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. in 1912 and built it into a worldwide conglomerate with assets of more than $5 billion. An outspoken conservative and onetime treasurer of the Republican National Committee, Kemper was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Brazil in 1953 but resigned less than two years later after he was criticized...