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...early '70s. "I didn't want to be 40 years old and still billed as somebody's kid." Now an executive with Sell Overseas America, an organization promoting overseas exports, she is finally 40, recently married to her third husband, Dennis Revell, 28, a law clerk, and still billed as somebody's kid-and an unpredictable one at that...
...former altar boy and the son of an ex-FBI agent, Boyce grew up in Palos Verdes, Calif., a well-heeled suburb of Los Angeles. He became disillusioned with America after Viet Nam and Watergate. While working as a communications clerk with top security clearance for TRW Inc. in nearby Redondo Beach, he and a friend decided to peddle classified information to the Soviet Union through its embassy in Mexico City. The pair sold $76,000 worth of secrets before they were caught in early...
...three-time Oscar winner, for Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and Ben-Hur (1959); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in French Alsace, Wyler immigrated to New York at age 19 and worked as a publicity agent and a script clerk before directing his first silent film in 1925. Though his work ranged from musicals (Funny Girl, 1968) to westerns (The Big Country, 1958), Wyler was best known for his film adaptations of such novels as Sinclair Lewis' Dodsworth (1936) and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1939), and Lillian Hellman...
...mold of judges who exercise "judicial restraint." "She tends to be a literalist with acute respect for statutes," said Frank O'Connor's colleagues consider her decisions crisp and well written. "Mercifully brief and cogent," said McGowan. "Clear, lucid and orderly," said Frank. But one Supreme Court clerk finds her writing "perfectly ordinary-no different from any other 2,000 judges around the country...
...Typist-clerks ($14,300) and grounds keepers ($17,524) are also laboring equally, the study concluded. Says striking Typist-Clerk Jan Piper, 37: "I feel I shouldn't have to be a grounds keeper to make an adequate living...