Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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William Selby, 77, an odd-jobs man, was evicted from his house. His white grocer and druggist cut off his credit. Two young couples-the John Jamersons and the William Thorns-were also ordered out of their houses; months later, the houses are still vacant. Jobie Mosby, 38, lost his $4-a-day job as a tractor driver. His wife, Fannie Mae, 29, a $2.50-a-day ironing woman, was fired. Neither has found jobs since-and they have eleven children to support. John McFerren, 35, could buy neither groceries nor gasoline for his small country store and filling station...
Born. To Steven Clark Rockefeller, 24, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's second son and Union Theological Seminary graduate student; and Anne-Marie ("Mia") Rasmussen Rockefeller, 22, Norwegian grocer's daughter and onetime Rockefeller family maid: their first child (Nelson's sixth grandchild), a son; in Manhattan. Name: Steven Clark...
...like them," explains a California housewife. "Every time I bend over, he says I look like a lollipop. So one day I wore a dress. First, I caught it in the car door. Then the baby poured soup in my lap. To top it all off, the grocer asked me if I were expecting another child. I've been wearing pants ever since." Next to pants, the staple is the simple, classic shirtwaist dress. It is now-thanks largely to new synthetic fibers and treated cottons -sturdy, wrinkleproof, quick-drying...
...sure just when "Time, gentlemen" will be called. As if the pub situation were not confusing enough, a hotel guest, while able to drink at any time because he is legally "at home," cannot offer a friend a drink when the local pub is closed. Nor can a grocer sell a housewife liquor, though he is allowed to "deliver"-if only to a waiting pram...
...Bolivar left the country to a long line of strongmen. In 1908 Juan Vicente Gómez, "Tyrant of the Andes," began a 27-year reign. That same year, in the poverty-ridden town of Guatire, 40 miles from Caracas, a child was born to a wholesale grocer's accountant and amateur poet named Luis Betancourt.* Pleased that his second child was a boy, the proud poet accurately sized his son up when Rómulo was only four months...