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...TRANSLATED a wedding invitation in Dutch at the Taj Mahal's employment office while looking for a job in Atlantic City last week. The "Human Resources Manager" was grateful and impressed, but in the end, all she could offer me was a job as a bus greeter at $3.80 an hour...
...resigned as a member of the Federal Trade Commission to help his ill-fated 1980 presidential campaign. Until then the former Duke University student- council president and campus Queen of the May from Salisbury, N.C., had concentrated single-mindedly on her work. She started in politics as a "greeter" on Lyndon Johnson's 1960 vice-presidential whistle-stop tour, where she became enamored of Washington. She eventually started working there, quickly racking up high-ranking posts in Administrations of both parties. Her soft, unthreatening style as much as her credentials and competence helped her climb the male-dominated echelons...
...earth's races huddled together in picturesque, cheek-by-jowl harmony. The subways, "awful and astonishing in about equal measure," cost only a nickel to ride. Grover Whalen, a flamboyant Irishman with a flower in his lapel, was glad-handing the visiting firemen as the city's official greeter, while saturnine Robert Moses, the master builder, was sundering neighborhoods in the name of progress. The cafe-society swells watered at El Morocco or the Stork Club, and the punters headed for Toots Shor's, mindful of the proprietor's dictum that "a bum who ain't drunk by midnight...
...thing," said the greeter, "but it might have picked up a little after I left...
...wives, bad bets and old friends drained it away. The IRS demanded $1.2 million in back taxes and penalties from him, and he suffered the humiliation of professional wrestling to help pay his debts. Following several stays in hospitals for drug abuse and paranoia, he became an "official greeter" at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas...