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Copell admitted in an interview last night that there is a legal difficulty involved but said that he has been "trying to straighten it out with the city authorities quietly." He attributed the Traveler story to a clerk in his office...
...front yard of one of many rows of neat new grey tile-roofed houses near the epicenter, I saw a young man doing his own laundry. He was Shinji Hamaguchi, 23, a former medical student and now a drugstore clerk. The A-bomb killed his parents and nine other relatives. "I still long to be a doctor," he said, "but it is financially impossible. If my family were living it would be different...
Precaution. In San Diego, police were looking for the two men who robbed the Nu Hotel of $23, then carefully went through Clerk Edwin A. Leonard's pockets and took his last nickel "to keep [him] from calling the police...
...mayor and the village clerk were both away when sleek, dark-suited Willem Johannes Janse van Rensburg rolled importantly into dusty Hennenman in a big car marked with the official Gs of government service. But Rensburg was not one to wait on protocol. With one stern glance about the little (pop. 1,146) Orange Free State village, he commandeered a likely office, announced to the assembled villagers that he was the new government health inspector and asked for complaints...
...time the village clerk returned, Rensburg was the talk of the town and all Hennenman was scrubbing itself clean. The town clerk called the provincial health department, just to make sure that everything was all right. It wasn't: the health department knew of no such man as Rensburg. Neither did any other government department. The clerk called the cops...