Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When I was fourteen and a collector of comic books in New York, I used to go downtown to a dirty loft its owners called The Memory Shop to trade early Batman comics for early Dick Tracy with a tough truck driver from St. Louis who fell by every month or so. He was tall and unshaven and sweaty, so it surprised me the first time when his voice revealed him a gentle nervous faggot. I would have forgotten him had I not seen him reincarnated last night as Flute, the Bellows-mender, later Thisbe, both parts executed by Woody...
...Britain had only 74 official strikes by 101,100 workers, with 733 000 lost man-days. "Britain is 50 years " behind U.S. the Labor U.S. in labor relations," says U. S. Labor Mediator Theodore W. Kheel, who just returned to Manhattan from a labor relations conference in London. "Any shop steward can call a strike in Britain, and the union's national leadership is powerless to halt...
Last summer 1) widespread media coverage of the use of marijuana by youth in general, 2) the holding of several be-ins in the spring, 3) the emergence of a psychedelic newspaper called Avatar, 4) the appearance of a head shop on Mass. Ave. called "Headquarters East," 5) the creation of a Diggers' free food house on Columbia St. in Cambridge, 6) the opening of a draft resistance headquarters, and 7) the movement of long-haired, funny-dressed people out of such underground (lit.) handouts as the Blue Parrot Cafe into the streets--all these things combined with...
That summer the hip people felt no loyalty to one another, and shared no eagerness in a common interest--the kind of feelings that make a viable community. Most people were sure the head shop would go under and Avatar would fold after the next issue...
...company's painstaking approach to toymaking began in 1880 in the Giengen dressmaking shop of Margarete Steiff, Hans-Otto's great-aunt. Partially paralyzed by polio since childhood, Margarete happened on the idea of fashioning toy elephants from scraps of felt and cloth for use as pincushions. They proved so popular with friends that Margarete soon gave up dressmaking, began turning out other stuffed animals with the help of relatives. When several Steiff-made bears wound up as table decorations at the 1906 White House wedding of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy's daughter, the resulting publicity made...