Word: kenwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bleeping and flashing at the checkout counters of a Kroger store in the Cincinnati suburb of Kenwood, the new device looks and sounds like something from a sci-fi movie. In fact, it is an experimental RCA computer system designed to speed customers through the counters and minimize chances that they will be overcharged by tired, rushed cashiers...
More than a dozen hardware companies (notably Sherwood, Kenwood and Sony) have already signed on to manufacture equipment for the Columbia SQ system. Panasonic has chosen RCA. Everyone else is taking a long, hard look. Or listen. As for the poor, beleaguered consumer, he may think twice before inviting two more after-dinner speakers into his home...
...Vice Lords known as the Conservative Vice Lords received Sears Foundation and Y.M.C.A. support in starting several small businesses in their area. Such prominent black personalities and longtime supporters of the gangs as Chicago Disk Jockey Holmes ("Daddy-O") Daylie and the Rev. Curtis Burrell, director of the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization (K.O.C.O.), helped provide jobs for gang members. But still the killings continued...
...staunchest allies. Burrell ran afoul of the Stones when he decided they were not acting for the good of the community and fired several of them from the K.O.C.O. staff last month. He denounced the gang as a negative element and held a "march against fear" in the Kenwood-Oakland area to muster resident support. Shortly afterward, five bullets were fired through the front window of his home...