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Soul-Joy in Body-Fort Health Foods is a small but colorful storefront set amid the continuous wall of dull brick that makes up Beacon Hill's Charles Street. Behind the counter, Marion Lennihan, dressed in a flowing yellow sarong, finishes cutting up enough tofu and egg salad sandwiches for the expected lunchtime rush from nearby Mass General Hospital. Lennihan is a disciple of Sri Chinmoy, an Indian teacher who arrived in the U.S. in 1964 and began attracting followers soon after. Several pictures of the guru hang on the wall, showing Chinmoy playing tennis, jogging, and sitting...
...entire scene: the faces in the crowd appear distinctly conspiratorial; the girl has been debased into a symbol, and is happily oblivious to what that symbol embodies or supports; and even inanimate objects and trivial details--the sheen of the car and the incomplete lettering of a storefront in the background--possess an enlarged, fictive meaning, a circuit of tension and a certain chill suggestive of all that is sinister, ridiculous and mesmerizing about displays of institutionalized eroticism...
...George E. Johnson started his own business in a South Side Chicago storefront by borrowing $250 and mixing, with wooden poles, a hair straightener for blacks. Twenty-two years later his company's health and beauty products had $39 million in annual sales, and Johnson Products became the first black-owned firm to be listed on the American Stock Exchange. But now Johnson's empire is tottering after conflicts with federal bureaucrats and tough competition from cosmetic giants like Revlon. Company sales fell last year to $31 million, and earnings have slumped from $1.40 a share...
Legal help was long beyond the reach of most poor Americans. Since the mid-'60s, however, storefront offices staffed by full-time poverty lawyers have sprung up across the country to help alleviate the problem. Some programs, like the feder ally financed West Virginia Legal Services Plan (WVLSP), have added another dimension. Beyond providing staff lawyers, the West Virginia plan also enlists private attorneys to handle cases for poor people...
...first such programs was set up in 1975 in the crime-plagued Dorchester section of Boston. Of the 1,200 cases heard in Dorchester's storefront Urban Court Program so far, 89% were settled there without having to be put before a judge. No one is forced to participate; either party in a dispute may insist on having his case heard in a conventional court. Those who decide to try the program sit down with two mediators-community members who are paid $7.50 a session for this part-time work and are trained to handle disputes coolly. Says Urban...