Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gets the advantage of cheap labor; the workers draw both clandestine wages and jobless benefits. Harold Kasper, who directs New York State's unemployment insurance program, ran into one such case by sheer accident: while munching a corned beef on rye at an Albany delicatessen, he overheard a waitress complaining to a friend that another waitress was being paid off the books. Such freakish breaks aside, says Kasper, the fraud is extremely hard to combat: "The guy who pays someone off the books, how in hell do you control that...
...lunch, Mondale called our waitress by her first name. His naturalness plus the arrangement of the small tables gave the room a homey kitchen atmosphere, though a portion of the back wall was missing. Sipping soup from his spoon, Mondale explained: "...a bomb went off in the john." What I took as a joke, it turned out later, was actually true...
Spacy and Dim. To be sure, the Congressman's accuser is no more admirable. A frustrated would-be actress and model, Liz Ray wandered from job to job (airline ticket agent, waitress, car-rental clerk) after her graduation from high school in Asheville, N.C., in 1962. She first appeared in Washington in the mid-'60s, landing a job as hostess in a restaurant. Her ex-employer says he called her "Excedrin-she was such a headache," and fired her after about five months because "she was hustling...
...Sight. Tiring of her sexual service for Hays, she left for Hollywood in the spring of 1975. "I'd been giving Academy Award performances once a week," she told the Washington Post. When she returned from the West Coast last July after failing to land even a cocktail waitress job, Hays asked South Carolina Democrat Mendel J. Davis to put her on his staff. As a member of Hays' House Administration Committee, Davis, 33, was eager to oblige the chairman. After a month or so Liz asked to rejoin Hays. He placed her on the committee payroll...
Baby Blue Marine, sentimental and good-natured, concerns Marion's discovery that manhood is not something that comes along with rank and wardrobe. Working his way home from California to St. Louis, Marion gets as far as a small Western town named Bidwell. He falls for a young waitress (Glynnis O'Connor) and lets himself become BidwelFs major curiosity, accepting the honor and privileges due a Marine who has seen extensive combat duty...