Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every day for four weeks the cops had poked around the homes, stores and vacant lots of Springfield, Mo. (pop. 80,500) looking for the weapon used 10 hack to death a shopkeeper and a liquor-store clerk. Last week an off-duty policeman named James Kitchell pushed a hand under an icehouse half a block from the scene of the murders, and pulled out a bloody butcher knife. Kitchell rushed to his boss. Police Chief Warren Norman, with the killer's weapon and an idea of his own: instead of calling the usual press conference...
...centers preaching that "there is a real hunger for art if a show can be put on in a place where the public is not afraid to go." Winning the support of some 75 galleries, Nordness soon had to take over five stories of a warehouse to store the 7,000 paintings and sculptures that came rolling in, sweated through a fire that burned down the adjacent building, even surmounted a last-minute crisis when the beige cloth backdrops for the show were sent to Chicago by mistake...
Another factor is retail sales, on which there is no comprehensive up-to-date statistic. The most current is the Federal Reserve's weekly index of department-store sales, which shows that sales are on the rise. But since it covers, only 6.7% of all retail sales and does not include many important items, e.g., autos, economists are not sure whether overall spending is still on the rise or has dropped...
...Author William Sansom-one of the best short-story writers now at work-is commonsensical enough to know this. His characters may be environed by a wilderness of asphalt, or by a sea of powder-blue wall-to-wall carpet, or by the price-tagged jungle of a department store; yet each embarks on a voyage of the spirit, with misery as the home port...
There will be no hard decisions in store for the student who wants to take a course in music next term. The Music Department has thoughtfully provided him with a choice of one. Along with Music 1, this brings the grand total for the year of one and a half courses in the department open without prerequisite to the non-concentrator...