Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lucrative business, this, largely because there is almost no overhead, no rent, and, usually, no taxes. New York police estimate that a general-merchandise peddler makes an average of $15,000 a year; some boast of taking in $1,000 a day. Lobsang Khendup, 46, an enterprising wood-crafter in San Francisco, supports a wife and three sons on annual street sales of $22,000. "What better job is there?" asks Ellie Cohen, 29, who sells her own home-baked goods in Miami in the whiter and in Portsmouth, N.H., in the summer. " work for myself. If I get tired...
...Family, groups well known for making mayhem in California prisons. "It don't sound right to say I enjoy being here, but it don't bother me like it did before," says Felix Padia, a Folsom inmate who has been meditating for 17 months. Says Convicted Dope Peddler Willie Castaneda, 55: "I am even beginning to like myself...
...Childhood. His father, whom he could not remember, becomes in retrospect a heroic if desolate figure, "fond of lying out with dry cattle" - that is, women who had never given birth. The minor characters are equally memorable: Willalee Bookatee and his family, their black neighbors; the Jew, a peddler whose wagon was crammed with exciting goods; Mr. Willis, the stoic hired hand, who "moved as slow as grass growing" and once extracted a tooth from his own mouth with a pair of pliers. Even the animals - Daisy the mare; Sam the loyal dog: the two mules...
...After the Eastern prints yesterday a young man stood on the shore peddling "sprints shirts" with which buyers could "remember the day that Harvard lost." Despite the fact that Harvard garnered the Rowe Cup which goes to the strongest heavyweight squad overall, and captured the second varsity race, the peddler was right--the 1978 sprints will be remembered as the day that the Crimson lost. Harvard finished second in the heavyweight varsity race for the first time since 1973, falling to an upstart Yale boat half-filled with sophomores...
...sales) to $ 11.2 billion, for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1977. Although this was down somewhat from the preceding year ($12 billion), it still was enough to give the U.S. once again the questionable honor of being, by a very large measure, the globe's champion arms peddler. It accounted for nearly half the 1977 record worldwide armaments trade of about $24 billion. Moreover, U.S. sales are now rising?toward an estimated $13.2 billion...