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...began in 1953 on the third floor of the Executive Office Building across the street from the White House and for the most part out of sight and sound of the President. The first National Security Adviser was a kind of aide-de-camp to Ike, more clerk than policy planner. But the next thing we knew, he had moved across the street and was in the White House basement, close to the President's communications center, a lope or two from John Kennedy's ear. When we woke up a few months after Nixon's Inaugural...
DIED. Serge Semenenko, 76, banker and corporation "doctor" whose flair as an arranger of controversial rescue loans gave his career an aura of drama and mystery; in New York City. The Russian-born financier, who rose from $25-a-week credit clerk to vice chairman of the First National Bank of Boston, was an improbable Bostonian. He traveled constantly and liked to mix business with pleasure in playgrounds like Acapulco and Cannes...
...duplex. "Something about the in-kind program came with the tax notice. I hadn't worked since I had been in the wheelchair, but I knew I could." Iva is dark-haired, feisty and determined. She went to city hall, hired on as a tax division clerk, particularly to process parking tickets. When Hargreaves offered to have her picked up and returned home each day, Iva rebelled: "I'll take care of myself." An independent Vermont Yankee, she drives...
Greenhouse indicates his cello, a 1707 Stradivarius. "When we travel by plane I put it on the seat next to mine," he says. "The airlines usually let me pay half-fare for it. One time a clerk read 'Greenhouse, Cello' on the ticket and thought it was a child's name. 'How old?' he asked. I said, 'Two hundred sixty-seven years...
Experts say that such delinquencies, which are a nationwide problem, could be curbed if judges handed out more sentences that prescribe imprisonment if fines are not paid by a certain date. They also urge that payment schedules be set up by judges rather than clerks in the U.S. Attorney's Ofiice, who can be soft touches. It was a clerk who believed Godfrey in 1977 when he said he was "meeting expenses" while working for a group called Elements of Love...