Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three days New York City dailies played the story big. Column after column was devoted to Enrique Negrón, a doughty little (5 ft. 5 in.) Bronx grocer who went to the aid of a police-man threatened by an ugly mob, and got stabbed in the back for his trouble. Then, last May, Negrón was released from the hospital and sent home. The papers forgot...
...free of cars. ≫ A woman who had received a parking ticket for leaving her Volkswagen more than twelve inches from the curb. All the nearby larger cars, which were closer to the curb but extended much farther into the street, were not ticketed. ≫ A grocer who was found in contempt of court because he refused to raise the price of milk as ordered by the State Milk Commission. Wrote Kilpatrick: "We would happily award him $500 so that he could buy twice as much contempt for a law that has no place in a free enterprise society...
...shows his distaste for Control, for London. He loves, in his homely way, Nan (Claire Bloom). He predictably shows his contempt for Mundt and Fiedler, the two Communist spies, and takes satisfaction in playing the one off against the other. He shows no regret when he beats up a grocer, and only irritation at Fiedler's fate. And finally, Leamas is forced to define his relationship to senseless, inhuman intrigues of Control and Mundt...
...eleven friends in five weeks rounded up enough books, cigarettes, candy, peanuts and soap to fill 3,500 cartons. Boston's Christmas Festival Committee, which is usually preoccupied with decorating the Common in late fall, raised $3,000 to buy gift packages from the city's fanciest grocer, S.S. Pierce. In Richmond, a neighborhood civic association passed the hat, bought 1,656 fruitcakes. A Charleston, W. Va., record-store owner asked teen-agers for their old records, was deluged with 3,300 in one week...
Decio started in the garage behind his childhood home in Elkhart, which is next to-and on the wrong side of-the New York Central Railroad tracks. His father, an Italian immigrant grocer, sank some savings into mobile homes in 1951, but did poorly and begged son Art to try either to rescue or liquidate the small company. Decio, then a steel salesman, put in $3,200 of his own, recruited three friends and started to work...