Word: store
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Benjamin Click, owner of a women's clothing store and the only Jew on the panel, reasoned that Sirhan was not only anti-Zionist but "fanatically" against anyone who supports Israel. "Bending over backwards to give him more of a break," Glick voted for life imprisonment on the first ballot. He stayed up all the next night, finally deciding that Sirhan "deserved death for his heinous, dastardly crime...
...coronation in her own gown instead of the one provided by the city. There to bestow the crown was her proud father, who stole a few hours away from the White House to fly down for the festival. Tricia also had something of a surprise in store for him: she revealed that her first official White House party will be a masked ball, because, "it hasn't been done before...
...schools are merely dispensaries of knowledge, then why did our teachers put such an exaggerated emphasis on our getting to school exactly on time? Why was cheating on exams so fanatically discouraged even though a student writing an examination is no longer in a position to increase his store of knowledge on the subject at hand? Why was such a premium placed on competitiveness, and why were the most creative, most imaginative children always the most heavily penalized? As for the assertion that most of what is learned in school is necessary for later life, how then...
Finally, a man from Truc's Poster Gallery (a store) came in the other day smoking a cigar and offered to buy up some of their stuff. The workshop people told him they only make posters to put on trees so people can read them. So that's the only place they...
...strike fashions, Krackerjacks (another store) has begun selling red armbands at 25c apiece. Red armbands started as symbol of support for SDS's position last Friday. Aside from their left-associated color, they have that frayed appearance that most revolutionaries usually think of themselves as having. Probably derived from tying a string around your finger to remember something, they are most important for the sense of participation they give the people who wear them. And the importance of feeling participation can't be overrated in something like a strike...