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...east side back in 1986. A few complained to him but were calmed by Guyton's passionate explanation that the dangling shoes celebrated their black ancestors lynched in the South. Residents probably should have asked Guyton whether Soles of the Most High completed his artistic vision for their block. It didn't. Eleven years later, thousands of used shoes are piled by the sidewalk and hanging in the trees--along with rusty car hoods and tires strewn across a vacant lot and rows and rows of discarded vacuum cleaners, stuffed animals and broken dolls. Heidelberg Street is also festooned...
...grand jury refused last week to indict Banuelos for shooting Hernandez, ruling that he had acted properly in defense of his fellow soldiers. But what remains unresolved--the question that has sent powerful tremors from the adobe-and-cinder-block foundations of Redford to the Defense Department in Washington--is whether the Marines should have been there in the first place...
...will Clinton tap this trend? Last week he chewed over three major initiatives with advisers, which could be introduced at a child-care conference to be conducted by Hillary in October. The current $1 billion federal block grant to subsidize child care for low-income parents will be raised. Because uniform federal standards would never pass Congress, Clinton will probably propose an incentive system to improve day-care quality, such as giving states money to provide training. The most ambitious idea would supply funds to local districts for after-school programs aimed at older students as well as primary schoolers...
What's more remarkable, all this is only a small part of an Allen A.M.E. antipoverty empire that sprawls across a 26-block stretch of southeastern Queens. To stroll the neighborhood is to see how much can be done when Caesar begins to render unto the church. Allen A.M.E. has used federal funds to provide the community's elderly with 300 subsidized apartments in the Allen Senior Citizens Housing Complex, along with meals and recreational activities. It has transformed abandoned city-owned lots and state mortgage subsidies into 50 affordable suburban-style two-family homes. Down the street from...
PHILATELIC FELINE The Central African Republic, it seems, has a soft spot for Socks. But you don't have to go there to lick the back of the First Cat's stamp. The International Collectors Society, a privately owned stamp company, sells a block of nine for $12.95. The company, based in Maryland, is appointed by post offices around the world to help market and distribute special-interest or collector stamps, which are legal for postage in the country where they are produced and recognized by postal authorities worldwide. i.c.s. buys the stamps from the government, usually paying above face...