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...rally represents the first efforts of the 1960-61 academic year to follow up victories won by last year's campaign against lunch counter discrimination. From February to August the civil rights groups organized picketing against Boston branches of the Woolworth's chain stores...
...Castro's next move? He could 1) make a formal demand, perhaps through the World Court, that the U.S. evacuate the Guantanamo Naval Base (which last week beefed up its Marine contingent); 2) confiscate the remaining $250 million in U.S. businesses, including branches of Sears, Roebuck and Woolworth, Westinghouse and General Electric; 3) break off diplomatic relations entirely; 4) stage an "incident" to prove U.S. aggression. At week's end the U.S. sent a curt note to Havana protesting that five Castro airforce planes were being painted over with U.S. insignia at San Antonio de los Banos airbase...
...then ("I got bored drawing rivets") to electronics. Holder of 55 electronics patents, Pierce has written three technical books and seven (under the pseudonym of J. J. Coupling), science-fiction stories. His first space-fiction yarn, written in high school, described the abduction of New York's Woolworth Building by aliens from Outer Space...
...have to run a Woolworth's-type business-sell in quantity," she says...
...visit to the PX, the world's biggest exclusive shopping preserve. Last week the payday rush was on in 5,933 PXs, helping to make the Army and Air Force Exchange Service rank in dollar volume below only Sears, Roebuck, J. C. Penney, Montgomery Ward and F. W. Woolworth among retail chains. To maintain its place as one of the U.S. military's greatest fringe benefits, PX branches stock up to 30,000 items, sell everything from underwear to refrigerators-all at cut-rate prices designed for the private who earns only $78 a month, the master sergeant...