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Five years ago, the FBI fired a bachelor clerk named Thomas Carter for admittedly sharing his bed with a girl he had known and dated for years. (He denied having had intercourse with her) The bureau's interest was triggered by an anonymous letter reporting that the 25-year-old Carter was "sleeping with young girls and carrying on." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia later ruled that Carter was entitled to a trial to determine whether his conduct was cause for discharge Chiding the Government for invoking the standard of the lady from Dubuque...
...book consists of the testimony of the nine. Each talks of the reasoning and the decisions that brought him to Catonsville. Yet the book is not unsympathetic to the problems of the witnesses, the prosecution, and the judge. In only a few lines by the draft board clerk named Mrs. Murphy, the tragedy of the petty bureaucrat is bared...
...certain that all of the votes would be delivered on the roll call. Spectators were crunched into every inch of the galleries and scores of senatorial aides crowded the floor aisles as Vice President Agnew, fumbling, announced that "the question is on the nomination of George Howard Carswell." The clerk called "Aiken," and Vermont's senior Senator immediately answered "Aye." Then bells rang throughout the Senate side of the Capitol, signaling the start of the roll call, and the chamber fell silent...
...first gasps came when Cook voted no. The gallery obviously was overwhelmingly against Carswell. Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield dramatically extended a thumbs-down gesture to the clerk when his name was called. Prouty's "No" drew scattered applause, despite rules against such expression. When Maggie Smith delivered her negative vote, apparently motivated by anger at the White House, everyone knew it was all over. Agnew's official announcement of the count drew shrieks, cheers, applause and a few boos. The Vice President called for order, then directed that the galleries be cleared. Mansfield rose to move that the President...
...doctor. His childhood was comfortable. He seemed destined for Yale and a happily-ever-after life, but just before he was to go to New Haven his father died and there was no money for college. O'Hara went on to a spectacularly varied assortment of jobs-freight clerk, steel-mill worker, soda jerk, gas-meter reader and deckhand-before turning to writing...