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...Aiken," intoned the tally clerk...
...moment of pathos came when the clerk arrived at the name of California Democrat Clair Engle, who has undergone two brain operations and has not appeared in the Senate since April. For this occasion, Engle, smiling gallantly, had been wheeled into the chamber. When the clerk called his name, Engle tried to speak, but could not. Finally he lifted his left arm, pointed at his head, and nodded...
NOTHING BUT THE BEST. In this cheeky, stylish, often mordantly funny variation on Room at the Top, an aristocratic wastrel (Denholm Elliott) teaches a lowly British clerk (Alan Bates) how to attain Establishment status...
Lately A. & P. has started up the comeback aisle. At the cost of lower earnings, it rescinded some of the price rises. Last year it brought in a 52-year-old president, Melvin Alldredge, who, unlike Chairman lohn D. Ehrgott, 68, has worked as an A. & P. store clerk and manager. And it has begun to stock more nonfood items, from towels to toys, which carry markups as high as 42% v. only 16% for the edibles...
...Spain's technocrats has been matched by the appearance of a tough young breed of entrepreneurs. Best-known among them is Eduardo Barreiros, 44, a onetime mechanic who built the nation's biggest automotive company, recently sold 45% of it to Chrysler for $19 million. Onetime Bank Clerk Jose Maria Aristrain, 48, started a scrap-iron business as a sideline, was so successful that he opened foundries, now operates plants that turn out 60,000 tons of steel a year. At 43, Engineer Pedro Duran is the aggressive president of the country's principal ship and locomotive...