Word: supermarketeering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shabby little old lady in sneakers, who padded into the Secretary of State's office to plunk down her $50, and has scarcely been heard from since. There is Harry Diehl, a Democrat, who took a leave of absence from his job as a clerk in a Houston supermarket and filed as "Harry Republican Diehl." There is a woman named Jonnie Mae Eckman, pastor of the House of Prayer in Brenham ("I do declare, now catch your breath, that I am the Christ prophesied of to come"); and one Delbert E. Grandstaff, whose chief distinction is that...
...observe the occasion with drawings made at the time. A showing at the National Gallery of Art in Washington provided the opportunity. Associate Editor Cranston Jones picked 50 examples from the show, from which TIME'S final choices were made, and Press Editor John Koffend, working from a supermarket cart full of old books and magazines, gathered the story of those early precursors of picture journalism, the 30 hardy Special Artists of the Civil...
...dinner to five members of their board of education who have been battling the state legislature in an effort to obey the court. But tensions were high. On the eve of New Orleans' famed Mardi Gras more than 100 Negro organizations canceled their usual celebrations. Schwegmann's supermarket chain advertised a formal denial in the Times-Picayune that sales of ice picks and lye have been heavier than usual...
...have regular jobs. Former Under Secretary of Commerce Carlos Smith, 52, wears a white coat as a Fontainebleau Hotel room wait er; former Supreme Court Justice Jose Cabezas is a fruit-plant shipping clerk; Prensa Libre's onetime personnel director. Diego Gonzalez, 42. sorts soda bottles in a supermarket for 70? an hour and is glad to have the work. "We get $6 to $8 a day," said a former customs officer who finds casual work on the docks. "We split with the others, of course." A surgeon and his family live off the wages of their 14-year...
Food? A busy supermarket does a business of $300,000 a month selling milk at 15? a quart and turkey at 41? a Ib. Entertainment? There are five nightclubs with free floor shows, inexpensive dinners and 25? highballs. The Teen Club is dominated by a free-play jukebox loaded with 60 rock-'n'-roll records and no reject button. Motoring? U.S. cars come direct from the factory at prices far below Stateside and gasoline is pumped into the tank at 14? a gallon. Vacation? If bored with the local 18-hole golf course (family membership: $40 a year...