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Three weeks ago, the bank's janitor accidentally put a box of 8,000 checks worth about $840,000 on a table reserved for trash. The operator of the paper shredder, which disposes of confidential material, dutifully dumped the contents into his machine. Next morning, after a frenzied search, Supervisor Madeline Roper found the shredded checks in a garbage can outside the bank. "I wanted to cry," she says. Most of the checks had been cashed at the bank and were awaiting shipment to a clearinghouse. Their loss posed the possibility of a bookkeeping nightmare because most of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Going to Pieces in Boise | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

...DRESSING. Hocker sits down, sips a Coke and brightens somewhat. "I pioneered in nudism, you know" he shouts over the music. "We were the first nudist place to serve beer, and we were first with nude dancing. This place has attracted your professional people, right down to the honorable janitor who pushes the broom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Decline of Nudism | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...This is not a joke. Remember the Brooklyn courthouse and California. Get the janitor out of the building. This is not a joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CFIA Bombed | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

...janitor nods half asleep on the front stairway, but jumps up when the door opens and starts vigorously buffing the oak handrail. This is the fifth time he has polished it this week...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: The Final Days ROTC-Nobody Said Goodbye | 6/2/1971 | See Source »

...came to Harvard as a freshman and remained three years with mediocre grades. He spent his hours drinking cases of beer in front of the Adams House TV and pissing in the sink of a nearby art room when his bladder beckoned. One night, he fondly recalls, the janitor locked the art room and Sloan was forced to deposit his urine in the House's ashtrays...

Author: By Bruce E. Johnson, | Title: Beyond Cynicism War Games | 5/14/1971 | See Source »

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