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...Manhattan, four F.W. Woolworth stores and a supermarket were fire-bombed one night last week with reasonably sophisticated incendiary devices ignited by acid. Two days later in Washington, bombs went off at four Latin American embassies...
Growing bands of consumers in search of bargains are pushing up sales at cut-rate stores. Kresge's first-quarter volume leaped 23% over the same period last year; J.C. Penney's was up 12%; and Woolworth's latest figures show a 14% rise. In New York City, Alexander's recently posted an 18% profit increase, aided by such promotions as "pre-inflation sales" that offered men's suits for $29. Used-car sales are also brisk, mainly for models costing less than $1,000. Auto-repair volume is up 10% from last year, partly...
Flex were black, high-ankle PFC's- Puerto Rican Eence Climbers. Bright white socks- Woolworth's of Cambridge- rose from his boots to black pants, a white tee shirt, and an oversized black leather jacket. He was sporting wrap-around windshield shades and the finest hair-do north of Brooklyn, Flex claims he uses three-quarters of a tube of "New" Score in it: that way it stays in place in breezy Cambridge...
They were wrong. Since the boycott, blacks have lost the habit of shopping on Dryades Street, partly because a white-owned bank, a Woolworth's and a McCrory's store have moved elsewhere-and the whole area has gone downhill. Though Willis and Dural offer brand-name clothes at reasonable prices, middle-class blacks prefer to shop at more prestigious downtown stores-a habit that in other cities is yielding to a "buy black" movement. Willis and Dural do not have the resources to provide credit, and they have refused to send customers to white loan sharks...
...Woolworth's will sell you four golden-oldie 45's (like "Girl Watcher" by the OKaysions, "Forget Me Not" by Martha and the Vandelas, "To Know You Is To Love You" by Bobby Vinton, and "I'm Wondering" by Stevie Wonder) for $1.01. They're regularly three for a dollar. At Reading International, you can get a Xerox for a nickel, Xerox for a nickel, Xerox for a nickel, Xerox for a nickel...