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...Clerk to Chairman. Lotz was chosen because he seemed equal to all those problems-and more. Son of a Hessian farmer, he became a Luftwaffe general-staff major assigned to assessing war needs. "That was my first strong contact with industrial planning," he says. At war's end he took a clerk's job in Mannheim with the German subsidiary of the Swiss firm of Brown, Boveri & Cie, which makes all kinds of electrical equipment from home appliances to locomotives. Within twelve years, Lotz rose to chairman. He and the Swiss fell out over a small computer company...
Fairest of Them All. For Weight Watchers, the rewards are touchingly simple. Says Walter Jenson, 23, a Queens office clerk who went from 425 Ibs. to 191 lbs. and from size 60 pants to size 36 in one year: "I can get on my knees and pray better." Brooklyn Bookkeeper Alex Galietti, 29, finds that after losing 106 lbs., "I'm doing things I could never do as a teen-ager-skating and bike riding...
Macabre Medley. On trial at Chester last April were Ian Brady, 28, a misanthropic store clerk whose only previous offenses had been housebreaking and burying cats alive, and Brady's blonde mistress, Esther Myra Hindley, 23, a wheyfaced, bouffant stenotypist. They were charged with slowly killing a ten-year-old girl and two boys, twelve and 17, by suffocation and ax blows, among other means. Two of the victims were buried naked in the bleak Manchester moors, where Myra posed smiling over the graves for Brady's camera; the third corpse was found by police in Brady...
...statements refuted in points Two and Five, they are not really refuted at all. The word "bureaucrat," which I used only once in the article, need not mean "clerk"; a bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy. Just the same, the article was laced with phrases ("public service," "policy-makers," "public affairs") conveying a much more elevated impression of government work. Point Five smacks of paranoia. I did not criticize the Woodrow Wilson School for discouraging applicants with no bent toward public service. I merely stated a fact--one which the letter confirms...
...odds against giving birth to twins are 80 to 1, against triplets 6,400 to 1, against quadruplets 512,000 to 1 and against quintuplets 40,960,000 to 1. Last week in Mexico City, Mrs. Maria Teresa López de Sepulveda, 21, wife of a social security clerk and mother of a two-year-old son, produced the 20,971,520,000,000-to-l chance: octuplets, four boys and four girls. The babies, weighing about 19½ oz. each, were two months premature, and all died within hours. It was only the third time in this century...