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Sometimes, but not often, the IBM-Open recruiting system goes wrong. For example, in 1941, a clerk in the admissions office inadvertently ran his nail along the edges of a batch of cards under process. The resultant nick caused the acceptance of twelve Cuban handball players...
...were doing something about the Communist Menace in Massachusetts. The Legislature set up a Committee to Curb Communism and gave it the task of finding the best anti-red legislation in the country and a way to graft it onto Massachusetts law. Meanwhile, Representative Paul A. McCarthy and Court Clerk Thomas H. Dorgan could not wait for such a study; they presented two bills to the General Court just before the 1950 legislative session came...
...British wives and their children were shopping unusually early. "I thought if there was to be trouble, it would be at a respectable hour," said Mrs. Stella Townsend, the wife of a Royal Signal Corps officer. Others had made the same surmise. Mrs. Townsend queued up patiently as the clerk served a neighbor with sausages, biscuits and a packet of sticky gumdrops. A score of British moppets wrestled happily on the floor. Suddenly there were angry shouts in the square outside. A gang of young Egyptians bellowed "Get out, dirty British." Two bricks came crashing through the store window. Scooping...
Oregon-born Garrett got into aircraft in 1928 as a 50?-an-hour stockroom clerk, became the "purchasing department" for Jack Northrop, a fellow worker, when Northrop started his own company. But Garrett wanted to be his own boss, too. In 1936, when West Coast plane builders were having trouble getting the kind of tools they wanted, he set up shop as a middleman supplier...
...hates publicity, speaks rarely, lives modestly in one of the capital's more conservative neighborhoods. His favorite relaxation is playing dominoes. After thirteen years in the revolutionary army without rising above the rank of major and eleven years in government bureaus without rising above the rank of clerk, he joined young Mike Alemán and rode the escalator right behind him-first to the governorship of his native Veracruz, then to the Ministry of Interior, the job from which Alemán also stepped to the top. Through it all, he made no important enemies. "I was poor...