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Meanwhile, in Lynwood, a largely ethnic neighborhood of Los Angeles, another Union Summer group gathered at 8 o'clock on a recent morning across the street from the Superior Super Warehouse and readied for a "blitz." "You'll be scared," warned veteran organizer Lois Elbornetti. "But don't worry, just have fun." The students had to "roach" the nonunion store--they entered en masse, headed for the back, then spread like cockroaches. They quickly handed out leaflets with the phone number of the United Food & Commercial Workers to all employees. And got out fast. The plan went like clockwork, with...
...this is merely the tip of the growing online world. For example, Dealernet http://www.dealernet.com/) developed by Martin Rood, a former dealer in Lynwood, Washington, offers 100 different Websites; they range from museums of classic autos to home pages for dealers who pay a one-time $14,000 fee to join up. Not to be outdone, General Motors launched a site last month http://www.gm.com/ that lets shoppers take the wheel of four virtual models and go for a virtual spin...
James L. Price III '97, a star football player and National Merit Award semifinalist from Lynwood, Calif., says in addition to a Dartmouth weekend, he was offered full tuition at Loyola, a college that openly recruits outstanding athletes...
They are technically not homeless people, but their living quarters make a mockery of the sentiment that there is no place like home. For the past two months Yolanda Gonzales, her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter have resided in a dilapidated two-car garage in Lynwood, Calif. Patches of dirt blotch the linoleum floor, electrical wires snake along bare walls, a door opens to a reeking kitchen dominated by a blackened stove. At $300 a month it is, alas, almost a bargain. "Nothing is affordable," says Gonzales, 42, whose daughter is on welfare and whose son-in-law lost...
...Lynwood (pop. 53,000 and 70% Hispanic), authorities have received more than 300 complaints about garage dwelling in the past eight months. In nearby South Gate, where some 4,000 garages provide shelter for 20,000 people, about 900 families have been evicted from backyards in the past three years. But a severe crackdown, officials agree, would only leave the unlucky completely homeless...