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...working people, too, must make time for shopping. Maria, 44, a clerk in a Warsaw office, explains that she and her five co-workers take turns in the lines throughout the day. "We buy for each other," she says. "If someone does not come back in two hours, then another person goes out and takes his place in line." Such creative absenteeism, however, hampers the nation's productivity and thus aggravates the problem of shortages. Moans Zygmunt Szeliga, deputy editor of the weekly Polityka: "People cannot work because they have to stand in line, and they have to stand...
Moreover, the shopper who hands his 2-in. by 3-in. ration coupon to a clerk is never sure whether even that meager allotment will be available. Many Poles never got their full share of meat last month. In spite of rationing, supplies of detergent and cigarettes have also fallen short of demand. Says one Warsaw woman: "I am 75, and I remember rationing under the Nazis. At least then you could be sure of getting what you had coupons...
Sometimes, of course, there is no sign of the Holy Ghost inside the jury room. Nassau County Republican Chairman Joseph Margiotta stood accused of mail fraud and extortion, and a court clerk warned prospective jurors that the trial might last four to six weeks. Richard Yurack, who had recently been laid off as a chemical salesman, had time to spare and thought the trial would be interesting, but in the course of 65 witnesses and 4,000 pages of testimony, says Yurack, the whole case "just got too complicated for some of the jurors...
...services program, which, in the mid-1950s, was a very big job. "We had a half-million dollar budget, big money in those days." Sullivan says. There was one unsuccessful race for the state seat in 1956, and a grandly successful campaign for his brother Edward, who was elected clerk of courts, a post he still holds. Edward kept his council seat till his term ran out, donating his salary to local charities, but he decided not to run for re-election in 1959. Which left the Sullivan seat open. Which left Walter Sullivan knocking on doors...
...foreboding, plus a raw strain of patriotism, kept trying to break through the veneer of satiric wit and comic, cultured urbanity that made him celebrated as man and writer. Langguth notes that he knew "the frustration of an adventurer's soul locked in the body of a clerk." Soon Munro left London again to become the Morning Post's correspondent in the Balkans, covering the bloody rivalry between Turks and Bulgars. He moved on to St. Petersburg, witnessing the march on the Winter Palace in 1905 and savage reprisal by Tsar Nicholas' Cossacks. Munro was a fearless...