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Arrested in their Manhattan apartment on charges of spying for Russia, Lithuanian-born Jack Soble and his wife Myra replied "not guilty" when a clerk at the federal courthouse last February asked them how they pleaded. Last week, pale, haggard but looking strangely relaxed, the Sobles switched their plea to guilty on a count of conspiring with Soviet agents to "receive and obtain" U.S. defense secrets. Maximum sentence: $10,000 fine and ten years' imprisonment...
...third floor of the freight house on the fringe of downtown, quietly hauled away desks, cabinets and records aboard 23 moving vans. On Monday morning unsuspecting Katy employees reported with lunchboxes in hand to find an armed security officer on guard before darkened, empty offices. Cried one woman clerk of 33 years' service: "Oh heavens! I left my glasses in the desk." No one was on hand to tell her what to do. All Katy executives were ordered to stay away from the office. Terse, printed notices advised the 115 displaced workers that they were out of jobs unless...
After months of parliamentary wrangling that cut across party lines and set the House of Lords in bitter opposition to the House of Commons, a bewigged clerk intoned La Reine le veult, and the Queen wishing it, a bill restricting capital punishment became law. Under the new Homicide Act, murderers convicted in Britain will be hanged only if their crime...
...Golden Vertical Negro Plan in the Israelite, Golden deadpanned: "The South, voluntarily, has all but eliminated vertical segregation. The white and Negro stand at the same grocery and supermarket counters, deposit money at the same bank teller's window, pay phone and light bills to the same clerk. It is only when the Negro 'sets' that the fur begins to fly." Urged Golden: "Provide only desks in all the public schools of our state; no seats." Though the lawmakers passed up Golden's suggestion, readers ordered 10,000 reprints of the Vertical Negro editorial...
Fresh from a New Jersey village, the young Quaker girl seemed hopelessly out of place at the snobbish weekly. But from her very first day in 1895, the trim, bright-eyed mail clerk named Edna Woolman Martin somehow felt "a proprietary interest" in the affairs of Vogue as it chronicled the genteel caprices of New York society rounding out a comfortable century of progress and optimism...