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...typical Block customer rushes into one of the company's small storefront offices, usually without an appointment, during the first few days of April. Most often the client is a man in his late 30s with an income ranging from $ 12,000 to $35,000. He may have prepared his forms in the past, but he has gone through a divorce, got a new job or had some other experience that altered his tax status. Though not out to cheat the IRS, he wants to know all the legal loopholes. Says Henry Bloch, the company's president...
Preach, nigger, preach!" Out of the darkness the voice rose-young, proud, urgent, female and black. It was an exhortation that might have been addressed to the spellbinding pastor of a Harlem storefront church, or to a Black Panther stopping pedestrian traffic on a street corner in Oakland, or to an ardent buck accelerating into passion on an apartment-house roof in Atlanta. As it happens, the voice came from the back of a theater auditorium in Long Beach, Calif. It was shouted to the man onstage, who could lay claim to being all those people: minister to the oppressed...
There were no injuries from the blast, police said, but the storefront of Topekapi Imports, located on the corner of Western Avenue and Mass. Ave. was ripped apart, shattering glass and smashing a stone facade...
...unusual advertising strategy, the Head Shop has turned its storefront sign upside down. "It suited our mood, and it makes people come in and ask us why we did it." Arthur L. Leslitz said as he was stocking the shelves with unusually shaped plastic tubes...
...storefront may be garish, the prices high, the door always locked ("We're washing the floor") for just that half hour at dawn when you succumb to the temptation to walk over. Still, almost in spite of itself, Store 24 has managed to become something of a cult phenomenon in its nine years in the Square. About three-quarters of the 1800 people who pass through in a day are regulars, Higgins estimates--commuters stopping in before or after work, Harvard staff or faculty buying lunch, students buying everything under...