Word: receptionist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jersey Receptionist Marlene Blum was not amused. Seven fellow employees at North Jersey Lithographers had hired one of those professional pie-throwing agencies to hit Mrs. Blum with one of their confections last May. Mrs. Blum hit back, pressing charges against the two pie pitchers, who pleaded guilty to assault and were fined $50 each. The pie-galled Mrs. Blum also brought a civil suit claiming she suffered a burning sensation in her eyes, had to quit her job and became so nervous she had to see a psychiatrist. Now the seven jokesters have agreed...
...typical day, Balthazar may see as many as 100 patients. Aided only by a nurse, a receptionist and 25 part-time volunteers, he treats almost every conceivable ill-heart disturbances, abscessed ears, broken bones, malnutrition, and once even a case of leprosy...
...meeting in the Manhattan offices of Architect I.M. Pei last week was a reconvening of the New Frontier. Almost the entire Kennedy family was there (Jacqueline Onassis arrived 20 minutes late and was reprimanded by a receptionist); so were Robert McNamara, Burke Marshall, C. Douglas Dillon and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. The luminaries had gathered not to launch a new candidacy, however, but to decide once and for all the location of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and Museum. Finally, after family members had left the room twice to caucus, the entire board made its decision: the $14 million complex...
...Society's "common goal," its literature says, is "Less government, more responsibility, and--with God's help--a better world." It even wants to abolish the graduated income tax--to cut down on this intrusion of government on the individual, among other reasons. But the elderly, red-haired receptionist in the John Birch Society's national headquarters in Belmont spends her working day filling out requisitions, resupply forms, and sales slips, because the John Birch Society is a business...
...three innocuously drab brick buildings is labeled "American Opinion, 395 Concord Ave.," with a single large American flag dangling over the front door. Inside, the only open doors are to the right, in a sea of fake wood paneling. The doors lead into a bookstore where sits the receptionist, Sally Riley, amidst a welter of reprints, newsletters, magazines, bumper stickers, and books with screaming titles, blood dripping dramatically down the covers, chains a prominent motif, and "Conspiracy" figuring in almost every title. During a five-hour span when I was in and out of the bookstore, as I toured...