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Much of the dialogue reads like a litany of liberation. Lines like "Why can't you be like other mothers" and "Don't go to college--get a job as a clerk, you'll meet a nice man..." wash over us with the indistinct familiarity of a TV ad we've heard a hundred times. It is obvious why this is not good theater: the characters are merely pasteboard stand-ins for the absent playwright. And while it may be less obvious, it is equally true that neither is this good politics. Rather than bring us closer to the truth...
...triple play was set up by Republican U.S. Attorney James R. ("Big Jim") Thompson, 38. Earlier, he obtained convictions against former Governor Otto Kerner, Cook County Clerk Edward Barrett and five other alder men. But "this time," said Thompson, "the system was on trial." Daley, 72, who had a mild stroke last May, is considering running for a sixth term next year...
...marriage to Franz Joseph was one of the century's great mismatches. While she fluttered through Europe, he would rise before dawn to be at his royal desk by 5 or 6 in the morning, as absorbed in the minutiae of bureaucracy as a clerk in a tax office. He apparently enjoyed the stultifying formality of the Hofburg. Once, when he awoke very ill in the middle of the night, he was able to bark only one phrase at the physician who had scurried to him: "Formal dress!" If he had any off-guard moments, they were reserved...
...court for first degree murder of one youth and for manslaughter of the other--Jay Hugh Price, Jr.--his own son. It is supremely ironic that one week to the day before the killings occured, Mr. and Mrs. Price took the initiative to hold a hearing in the municipal clerk of court's office in order to have warrents sworn against their tormentors. No warrents were sworn and up to date not one of the white youths--all of whom are well known to the police--have been charged or arrested with anything. Not even disturbing the peace...
...income statements showed earnings of $30,321 for last year, from the following sources: City Council salary, $6500; Middlesex court clerk salary, $17,255; salary as an officer of M.A. Sullivan Trucking Co., $679; salary as vice president of Charlesbank Trust Co., $2684; dividends and interest, $1819; and rental income...