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When the Harrises were detected shoplifting (stealing a 49? pair of socks) at a suburban Los Angeles sporting-goods store, Patty, watching from a parked car, sprayed the storefront with rifle bullets to cover their flight...
Leaders of the boycott movement have threatened to expand it this year and to enlarge some storefront "academies"−similar to those that whites established in the South to avoid desegregation−in South Boston, East Boston and Hyde Park. The academies, designed to accommodate 800 students, will charge $575 tuition. Other white parents are trying to enroll their children in parochial and private schools, most of which are already full, or in suburbs and other school districts where they have relatives...
...they decided to open a coffeehouse and formed a corporation called the Big Ffor (after the initials of each member's last name), and Jo bought them a four-story house and storefront on West 4th Street. From all accounts, including her own, Jo was "in emotional trouble." According to Teddy, she was once found on the roof of a house tossing away checks, had attempted suicide several times, and often spent days cocooned in bed weeping...
...with David, so Teddy took over as his mother, and David grew up believing that Jo was his sister. He was raised by the family's notions of total freedom; he was kept out of school and picked up his education from the people who gravitated to the storefront seeking food and shelter. The storefront, which the group turned into a factory to produce Tiffany-style lampshades rather than into a coffeehouse, overflowed with dogs, vagrants, hanging lamps, plants, glass-cutting equipment, books, rags and grime...
...habeas corpus served on Dolph. After Dolph failed to produce the boy for testing before the question of custody could be settled, he was sent to jail. Teddy also refused to comply with the court order and, before going to jail herself, told Micah and Peter Yee, 15, a storefront regular picked up by the family in a nearby park, to hide David. In October 1973 the three disappeared and were last thought to be somewhere in Connecticut. In desperation, Jo Oppenheimer has offered a $2,500 reward to anyone who can help her find her son. Only...