Amy Is the Pitting Image of a Hard-Working Runner

--Life is the pits these days for Amy Carter--the trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade. But the freckle-faced, 17-year-old daughter of former President Jimmy Carter likes her chaotic summer job as a runner for Shatkin Trading Co., literally rubbing shoulders with the floor’s movers and shakers as she dashes about with orders for the screaming and gesturing traders. “It’s not bad--when you know you’re not going to be here for the rest of your life,” she said. With her shoulder-length strawberry blonde hair, black jeans and Kelly-green runner’s jacket, Carter blends easily into the trading floor crowd. She has been living in suburban Evanston with her brother Jack, who works on the trading floor as second vice president for Continental Illinois Corp.’s futures division and who helped get her the job. It was Jack, 38, who sparked her interest in the futures exchange. “I wanted to find out what it was like, since he likes it so much,” she said. “I needed a job, and this was a good place to get it.”

--”It’s not much fun to have people thinking you’re a fink for turning in your old man,” Michael Hoffman, 25, told the Lansing, Mich., State Journal. But the son thinks he did the right thing in tipping police off to a grocery store robbery in Olivet, Mich.--even if the robber was his father. His father, Charles, 55, was convicted of the crime. Charles now sits in a wheelchair with a police officer’s bullet near his heart. “The reason I called the cops was that I was afraid somebody was going to get hurt,” Michael said. “As it turned out, it was my dad.” Michael said he told his father he had turned him in and that his father’s reaction was: “You shouldn’t have done that.” Michael added: “He asked me why I didn’t try to stop him.” The son replied, “I thought I did.”

--Colored lights frame the dance floor and clouds envelop dancers. A computerized bar dispenses shots of alcohol into glasses as cooks prepare a feast. All in the name of the U.S. Army. Operating on the theory that the military deserves the best, students at the U.S. Army Club Management School at Ft. Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis are learning how to properly set a table, garnish food and manage a disco. Graduates of the 10-week course are assigned to manage clubs at about 700 military bases worldwide, said Maj. Richard A. Kubiak, director of the school.