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...ball park vendor is no different than any other laborer. The hours are different--lasting four quarters, three periods, or nine innings. The days are different, too; West coast swings, southern jaunts, and three-day excursions make the schedule shaky and uneven. But the vendor has an employer and a union as any other occupation...
...Wood Co. of Revere is the only company with a vendor's license to sell wood at Harvard. The company's sales in the Harvard community have risen 50 per cent over a year ago, Barry P. Caswell, manager of the firm, said yesterday...
...only other legal firewood vendor at Harvard is the Lowell House Committee. The committee sells wood to Lowell House residents by the armload, at cost...
...window lights on Tel Aviv's fashionable Dizengoff Street and Allenby Road snapped on automatically at sundown; shopkeepers quickly turned them off. In Cairo, which lies but seven minutes by jet from the canal, the streets were brightly lit for hours after sundown. "You mean," demanded a sidewalk vendor in disbelief, "that we are fighting Israel with all these lights on?" By late evening, when the government ordered that all electric lights and headlights be daubed with blue paint, the war reports seemed more convincing...
...over the country to supermarkets and suburban shopping centers, and over the years the market men have moved from the old neighborhoods in the North End out to Somerville, and Cambridge. But Haymarket is still an intensely human place, where there is a fierce brotherhood among competitors, and a vendor will still toss a few old cherries at the back of an obnoxious customer...