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...three dissident Democrats who walked out of his Senate Investigations Subcommittee last July (TIME, July 20). McCarthy agreed to 1) give up the sole hiring-and-firing powers and let other committee members have a say in staff employment, 2) permit the Democrats to have a minority counsel and clerk, 3) allow the Democrats to block public hearings by their own unanimous vote, unless overruled by the parent Government Operations Committee. The stray lambs, Senators John McClellan, Henry Jackson and Stuart Symington, agreed to rejoin the committee. Said Joe: "I was glad-strike the word glad-happy to compromise...
...might otherwise be unable to afford the luxury of a foreign professor. So far, 59 colleges have written in to say they would welcome the idea. Meanwhile, the institute's list remains a roster of tragedy: a onetime embassy charge d'affaires who now works as a clerk in a garment district storehouse, a political scientist whose only U.S. job has been as a cashier in a tenth-rate restaurant, a banker who is now a janitor, and two former ambassadors, one of whom scrapes along as an assistant librarian. The other: "unemployed...
...when Grant was 15, his father killed himself, leaving Grant's mother to make ends meet by teaching dancing. Harry Grant quit high school after his freshman year, went to work as a $5-a-week railway messenger. He was earning $60 a month as a ticket clerk when he quit to make more as a bookkeeper and cattle checker in Swift & Co.'s stockyards. He bought schoolbooks and studied at night, and by the time he was 22, he had saved enough money to enter Harvard as a special student...
...much of that time is spent simply showing them where the rest room is and how to fill out forms in quadruplicate. Such red tape is in itself a barrier to sales. Customers will often pass up an item they can use rather than wait ten minutes while the clerk fusses with an order book and change. Furthermore, big stores carry so many competing lines of equipment that they hardly dare plug any single brand. Instead of helping a customer to buy, a clerk often merely confuses him with such generalities as "they're all good," without bothering...
Thomas Dorgan, Suffolk Superior Court clerk, has demanded Furry's prosecution, charging the professor violated this law when he became a member of the Communist Party...