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...downtown area, however, is suffering visibly. Sales were off in department stores. Woolworth's estimates that 60% of its customers and 40% of its employees relied on buses. At Newberry's, where 30 or so regulars once took coffee at the snack bar every morning at 7:30, only a few have been coming...
...Boyer, who worked just an hour's drive away at the University of California at San Francisco. Their partnership had emerged accidentally. In November 1972, after a long day of listening to scientific papers at a conference in Hawaii, they met in a Waikiki delicatessen for a midnight snack. Gossiping about their work while munching on corned-beef sandwiches, the two discovered that their research dovetailed in a way that opened up some highly intriguing possibilities...
Atlanta's 35-member police task force, which is being aided by the FBI, had two new cases last week. Curtis Walker, 13, was reported missing on Feb. 19, when he failed to return home from a job at a snack bar in northwest Atlanta. The task force is also hunting for Darron Glass, 10, who was last seen in September. The death of Aaron Wyche, 10, whose body was found last June in De Kalb County beneath a railroad trestle, was originally classified an accident; investigators have now determined that his death was due to asphyxiation...
...letters to the editor of Pravda serve as an important forum for Soviet citizens to air pet peeves, make suggestions and scold their less virtuous countrymen. "Every day in the school snack bar, Sasha gets change from a five-ruble bill," wrote a schoolteacher from the Moscow region earlier this year, complaining about how children today do not appreciate the value of a hard-earned ruble. "The parents aren't interested in how their children spend the remaining money." A lieutenant colonel stationed in Lithuania urged parents not to send money to their army sons, already well cared...
Tourists can park their cars on Judas Street or munch a snack on Manna Street. Souvenir sellers thrive. In 1970 the town earned a net profit of $3 million, which helped to finance a new village swimming pool and sports center. For the 1980 production, package deals for tourists cost up to $200 and include the play plus food and two nights' lodging...