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...specific "clientele" and so is less likely to have interlocking relationships with it. The chairman can widen his awareness of consumer problems--he need not address business groups uncountably more times than he addresses consumer groups. He could send investigative groups to ghetto areas, and establish storefront offices. This must be done by a new chairman, but it is questionable if any but an exceptionable appointee will resist the wooing influence of business...
Enrique Blanco, a 29-year-old Puerto Rican, has been through that routine and now goes five days a week to a storefront clinic run by Beth Israel's Morris J. Bernstein Institute. There he takes a maintenance dose of methadone and leaves, in exchange, a sample of his urine; on Fridays he receives a ñapa of two methadone drinks to take over the weekend...
...Here we are," says the cabby, stopping at No. 429 Broome Street, an unlighted storefront in lower Manhattan with a FOR LET sign taped to one black-painted window. By day, Broome Street is a bustling, truck-clogged thoroughfare; at 9 p.m. it is all but deserted. Doubtfully, the passenger pays the cabby and walks over to try the door of the store. It is locked. He is about to return to the taxi when he notices a small bell push, hidden in the shadows. He presses; a buzzer signals that the door is unlocked. He steps inside a tiny...
Hampton's headquarters in Baldwin, L.I., are right across the street from the Lowenstein storefront, but the people inside don't even look the same. Inside Lowenstein's storefront, phones are ringing, people are shouting, women are serving coffee. High school kids are running out to polling places to distribute Lowenstein-O'Dwyer literature. Among the campaign posters on the walls are charts and maps of the district...
...adversaries--supermarket and picketers--seemed woefully mismatched. The store was brightly lit, cleanly efficient, inviting. Sturdy, serious teenage boys, carrying packages from the outside conveyor belt to the cars waiting along the curb, hustled past the picketers who circled slowly and unevenly along the length of the storefront...