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...kind of late autumn chill that sends a small group of males fumbling in their pockets for their keys to the big black door at number 1324. It's not the kind of door that many people notice; it blend, in between the storefront of the clothing store that once upon a time decided to launch a xeroxing price war in Harvard Square (look that one up in your Ec 10 workbook) and a restaurant where a friend once found a cockroach meandering through his Peking Meat Sauce Noodles...
...proprietors of Revolution Books, a communist bookstore at 233 Mass Ave, yesterday charged that their landlord will evict them from their storefront location because of their politics...
Most neighborhoods have a storefront agitpunkt (agitation and propaganda point), which is festooned with slogans and piled high with party literature. But when local residents stop in to study the bulletin board and ask questions of the official on duty, the chances are they are interested in new regulations that might affect their lives or gossip about apartments about to become available...
Life was simpler for the Lion of Judah. He did not have to sit in a little storefront near the Greyhound station and tempt young men and women into the military with fantasies of exotic travel and careers in computer maintenance. The Emperor had at least one advantage over the modern American recruiter, of course: a foreign invasion wonderfully concentrates the national mind. Absolute power over Columbia people also gave Selassie a certain edge...
Several hundred Cuban refugees are already starting a new life. In the neighboring towns of Union City and West New York, N.J., many storefront signs are written in Spanish, and men sit in restaurants sipping cafe cubano. With 69,000 immigrants, many of whom fled here in the 1960s, this area has the largest Cuban community in the U.S. outside Miami, and many of the established exiles have opened their homes to the newcomers. "I never thought that Castro would let us go," says Ricardo Colas Estrada, 22, who spent seven days waiting in the Peruvian embassy...