Word: bootblack
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...years ago. Ms. Simpson seems to confirm that the new Harvard is making its presence felt when we work our way into a discussion of the club's scholarship program and its nascent community service organization "Crimson Impact"--two things you wouldn't expect from an organization with a "bootblack" and a masseuse on staff...
...Wilshire-Alvarado sleep late. But by 9 p.m., street traffic picks up around the park, where youths stand three deep, bare-chested or in ragged shirts, making deals and scouting for action. For the legitimate merchants who have chosen to tough it out, however, the terror never wanes. Bootblack Carey Smith, 77, who has worked in the district for 25 years, was robbed eight months ago of $630. But he goes on shining shoes at his small outdoor stall. Says he: "They'd just as soon kill you as look at you. You can feel the danger...
...troops who have invaded and seized control of their land. "Shoravi Padar Lanath!"cried beggars and shopkeepers alike in the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan's shabby, snow-covered capital. The curse ("Goddamn the Russians!") replaced morning pleasantries in the city's ancient bazaar. "Afghanistan is no more," lamented a bootblack in the shopping district of Share Nau. "We have lost everything...
Three cheers for Pat Moynihan [Jan. 26]! He is the epitome of the American success story-from bootblack and bartender to ambassador...
...American dream lived in John Alessio. Son of an impoverished coal miner, he is a grade-school dropout and a onetime bootblack who became a millionaire with diverse interests in banking, real estate and restaurants in California and horse racing, dog racing and legalized bookmaking in Mexico. One of his enterprises was the erection of a twelve-story office building on the very same street in San Diego where he used to shine the shoes of C. Arnholt Smith, a fund-raising friend of Richard Nixon and Alessio's mentor and business associate. Alessio, named "Mr. San Diego...