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...Administration nurse laboring to restore the nation's Viet Nam wounded to health? The Forest Service fire fighter breathing smoke in Oregon and California at this very hour? A cancer researcher? The FDA technician whose revelations on thalidomide saved untold numbers of unborn babies from hideous disfigurement? The clerk who dispatches a Social Security payment to a senior citizen in your own family? Which of these bureaucrats would you trim from the federal payroll...
...enlist him in the joys of communal sex. He is tempted but resists, and instead uses his wife as an outlet for his mounting energies and disintegrating inhibitions, as well as his expanding knowledge of geometrically complex sexual postures. After his wife persuades him to hire a clerk to staff the shop (Beatrice Romand), Claude tries to seduce the clerk, but she turns out to be more interested in Claude's wife. Finally every body goes off on a sort of free-for-all Mediterranean cruise. In the worst tradition of French farce, Claude's wife fakes inconstancy...
...CLERK OF LAW was too, a John of DEANE, He borrowed gold to wed the Maid Maureene. Hys memory was ful; of dates koude answyr, "I warned Milord," quod he, "of Creepyng Cancyr...
...networks intended, but if not, the viewer can try one of the new sitcoms. Several comedy half-hours have jumped aboard Archie Bunker's blue-collar bus−one, NBC's Lotsa Luck, quite literally. The show stars Dom DeLuise as an ex-bus driver promoted to clerk in the lost-and-found department. (In its first episode last week, Lotsa Luck stretched Bunker bluntness into common vulgarity with a plot that revolved entirely around a purple-lidded, tangerine-colored toilet.) Just as DeLuise contends with his crotchety/lazy/dumb family relations, James Coco as CBS'S Calucci...
...onetime law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart and later a University of Michigan Law School professor, specializing in antitrust, Kauper was hired in mid-1972 by then Attorney General Richard Kleindienst. Kauper is the first to admit that much of the department's new-found activism actually began under former chiefs. "Policies tend to move rather slowly," he says. "In the course of a year, it's hard to say that it's this or that man who is responsible." But in Nixonian Washington, where politics has influenced practice in many supposedly non-partisan...