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...Crawford has discovered that depressed or distraught vets can be coaxed into visiting the informal storefront offices of Operation Outreach. The offices, moreover, are generally manned by Viet Nam vets who have suffered similar emotional maladies. These counselors go through a weeklong training session designed to rid them of their own postwar hang-ups. They also learn how to tell when a vet needs professional psychiatric help rather than some friendly counseling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Reaching Out | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...White House to barnstorm the state 1976-style, he is much better organized in Iowa than he was four years ago. His campaign has about 30 full-time paid operators and some degree of organization in each of the 99 counties. His Des Moines headquarters, which was a mere storefront in 1976, now occupies an entire floor of the same building. A phone bank is constantly buzzing with calls to supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: And Now It Begins--Sort Of | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...From its storefront office on 9th Avenue in New York, the organization tries to educate people about the hard-core pornographic culture many of them, especially women, never see: how its violent and misleading images of women filter down into popular culture like record and fashion advertising; how these images promote stereotypes about female sexuality; and how pornography encourages male violence toward women. WAP members quote studies which claim that more than half of all child rapes are committed by men who say they are "trying out" techniques they saw in hard-core magazines and books...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Hitting the Hard Core Of the Big Apple | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...scene: a seedy storefront in New York City's Times Square district. Inside a tawdry slide show is under way. The brutal image of a woman being raped flashes onto the screen, then another of a woman in the throes of masochistic ecstasy as she is strangled by her lover. Still other pictures show women being mutilated and even killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Women's War on Porn | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...paper's own backyard was a national story. The Light was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its investigative articles about the activities of Synanon, the controversial drug-rehabilitation group with headquarters six miles away. Out-of-town journalists quickly descended on the paper's storefront office in Point Reyes Station (pop. 420) to interview the Light's owners, Cathy, 34, and David Mitchell, 35. Armed with Stanford journalism degrees and experience on small papers elsewhere, the Mitchells bought the Light four years ago for "under $50,000." Ironically, their Pulitzer-the gold medal for public service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Little Paper, Big Prize | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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