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...dared to cross the color line. He's the one on the left, the skinny kid in the trench coat, standing beside three other young black men. That winter day in 1960, those four college students broke the segregation barrier by taking seats at F.W. Woolworth's downtown lunch counter. The sit-in shook the sleepy North Carolina city and ignited a nationwide movement to topple Jim Crow's walls. But Richmond says all he felt that day was "scared, scared, scared...
...problem in doing such programs is the cost. Elaborate special effects are too expensive for most TV series, and the tackiness can show. Superboy, for example, is an engaging adventure series based on the comic book, but the TV hero's cheesy superantics come straight from Woolworth's. Low-rent special effects have also turned War of the Worlds -- an update of the H.G. Wells novel and 1953 movie -- into a dreary stalemate. Last season the evil aliens seemed to do little but abduct unsuspecting earthlings and transform them Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style into blank-eyed automatons...
...Woolworth has been known as a place to buy hairpins, shoelaces or holiday goods. Now customers can find something more pricey -- and deadly -- in F.W. Woolworth outlets in North Miami Beach and Hollywood, Fla. There $600 buys an Uzi semiautomatic machine gun, a version of the weapon developed for the Israeli army and now admired by terrorists and drug merchants. Says Woolworth spokesman Joseph F. Carroll: "When a person can relate to his friends that he has bought an Uzi, it puts him in a different league." Some think Woolworth is putting itself in a new league. "It is outrageous...
Many smaller chains are going on expansion binges to hold their own with the big boys. Zayre, with 362 department stores, has bought or opened 750 specialty outlets, including such chains as HomeClub and T.J. Maxx. Woolworth has moved into higher-priced markets by buying such specialty chains as Foot Locker and Tennis Lady. Says Joseph Carroll, a Woolworth vice president: "We're no longer just a five-and-ten-cent store...
...downtown Greensboro, a marker notes the 1960 Woolworth's sit-ins by black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students. "Sure, you can't come in here as a black man and not feel a sense of history," says Terry Woods, a technician, as he sits at a once segregated lunch counter. "We get along with whites here," says Woods, 33. "I am not going to vote for a man because of the color of his skin." But, he adds, "I do like Jesse, because I like to think that one day a black man will be there...