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...people are expected to swarm into Lake Placid during every day of competition, the 1980 Games involved no large-scale dislocation of the town's citizens, as happened in Montreal during the 1976 Summer Games. To be sure, a certain amount of displacement has occurred. A young clerk for the Lake Placid Organizing Committee was bumped from her $300-a-month apartment so that the landlord could rent it during February to wealthy snow bunnies for $4,000. Another story making the rounds has houses being purchased for $75,000 and rented for half that figure...
...course, Hugh is the champion that they are waiting for, but this certainty is a tribute to Le Guin's narrative savvy. Because she moves briskly without ever seeming to hurry, she makes Hugh's transformation from supermarket clerk to Arthurian knight-errant whisk by as inevitably as a theorem, as acceptably as a rabbit coming out of a hat. The author brandishes her magic instead of concealing it; when Hugh accepts his mission on behalf of the people of Mountain Town, he is given a standard-issue sword and sent out to slay a woefully worn...
...Boyce, the road to Lompoc began in 1975 when, with the aid of his father, a former FBI agent, he was hired by TRW, a conglomerate that, among other things, makes surveillance satellites for the CIA. A communications clerk, Boyce soon got "top secret" and "crypto" clearances that allowed him to handle highly classified documents. The college dropout found himself assigned to a sensitive job: transmitting coded spy information from the TRW installation in Redondo Beach, Calif., to CIA headquarters in Langley...
...Fred Jenkins, Stated Clerk...
Laskey Bell was studious, quite; his father jeeringly called him a "clerk," and that's what he became--a clerk in the Osborne Lumber Company, jeered at there by his boss Eddie Osborne because he blushed at the racy calendars Osborne hung on the wall of the office they both shared. Thirty years later, when Osborne came to him for a loan that would enable him to move into the expanding natural gas industry of the Kanawha Valley with the promise of a full partnership, Laskey Bell set a further condition--he wanted Osborne's daughter's hand in marriage...