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...Iranians and can still command masses of young zealots who believe in Khomeini's promise to "march to Jerusalem" by way of Iraq. But the seemingly endless fighting is producing disillusionment among others. Says a factory manager whose plant is virtually closed for lack of raw materials: "A grocer down the block has lost three sons in the war. It would kill him if he had to accept the reality that they died in vain, that there is no march to Jerusalem...
Born in Nashville, Ill., Blackmun spent most of his boyhood in St. Paul, Minn., where his father was a fruit wholesaler, grocer and insurance salesman who had aspired to be a lawyer...
Almost always dressed in a natty but rumpled suit, Pivot, 52, is an unlikely candidate for stardom. The son of a winegrower and grocer in Lyons, he attended journalism school in Paris. In 1958, after dabbling in financial reporting and writing a novel, he applied for a job on the literary supplement of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. Pivot knew little about literature, but the editor happened to be a wine connoisseur and was impressed by Pivot's knowledge of Beaujolais, the wine from the countryside near Lyons. Thus Pivot broke into the life of letters "totally by chance...
Walter Barbknecht bursts from his seat, saying, "I got to go tell Carlton the grocer that...
...target of the investigation is a reputed drug kingpin named Felipe Esteva. He supposedly deals in produce, but Spenser knows him for what he really is, observing that a true grocer would not need a tough guy in a Celtics jacket for a bodyguard...