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...downtown area, however, is suffering visibly. Sales were off in department stores. Woolworth's estimates that 60% of its customers and 40% of its employees relied on buses. At Newberry's, where 30 or so regulars once took coffee at the snack bar every morning at 7:30, only a few have been coming...
...vivacity, without the thought, leaps to the eye in color as well as motion. The costumes are from the Loeb's bins, and from scratch, and occasionally, it seems, from Woolworth's. The makeup is self-applied, often with startling and regrettable results...
Greensboro, N.C., Feb. 1960--Four Black college students sit down at the lunch counter of a downtown Woolworth's and ask to be served. When the manager refuses, they inform him they'll stay. And they do, until closing time, when they return to their campus and recruit dozens more. The protest continues for a week, larger every day, as the Blacks and their white allies remain peaceful but assertive, and as local whites grow angry and violent...
There is just one main road that interrupts the serenity of the Princeton campus. A slow jog along it will take you by the few businesses that service the students--an antiseptic Woolworth's, a cheerfully Tudor P.J.'s Pancake House, one lone movie theater advertising "Fort Apache, The Bronx." Before you know it you are out of the town and into the suburban area where graceful turn-of-the-century mansions are occasionally jurtaposed with modernistic concrete boxes, and where large expanses of land and water are dotted with honking brown geese...
...inventor whose inventions, like a tape recorder thay plays "Rule Britannia" when the clock strikes twelve, never seem to grab the public's fancy. As a result, he lives off ten shillings a week provided by his rambunctious 18-year old daughter Linda, who works in Fancy Goods at Woolworth's. He refuses to collect unemployment compensation; that is for the masses, not for an inventor. With a new ten-bob note every "Meatless Saturday," George heads for the pub, where the locals indulge his fantasies. He is a man lost in the past, reading his daughter's old fairy...