Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Norman Mailer, novelist, becomes Norman Mailer, journalist, with "Superman Comes to the Supermarket" about Kennedy's nomination, in Esquire...
...number of related fislds. In Louisiana, Roman Catholic Priest Albert McKnight. 45, a Brooklyn-born black, has had remarkable success with a rural redevelopment enterprise called the Southern Consumer's Cooperative. It has opened, among other things, a farmers' cooperative, a prosperous fruitcake bakery and a cut-rat; supermarket, and has given local Negroes a strong motivation to join Father McKnight's literacy program. (A former sharecropper, illiterate two years ago, is now the co-op's farm marketing expert.) In Philadelphia, American Baptist Minister Leon Sullivan, another Negro, has pursued the self-help goal on an even larger scale...
...breakfast one morning, in between telling Simon to eat his egg, his parents are discussing a little boy who is "rotten, absolutely rotten." And Simon begins to imagine all the things he would do if he were rotten. The detailed pencil drawings show him racing through a supermarket, cutting off his sister's hair and finally going to jail. The text by musical writer Mary Rodgers (Once Upon a Mattress) is deadpan funny...
...Raff dropped out of school for good. A young man who had never dated a girl, he found a job polishing and arranging fruit in a Seattle supermarket and took some satisfaction in it. But his failure in school, tugging remorselessly at his conscience, drove him to the Seattle public library. For hours on end, unable to fathom the printed mysteries of its stacks, he pored over the illustrations. In a way that he still does not understand, pictures of airplanes and weapons of war fascinated him. And his thoughts slowly turned to the other culture of modern society where...
Temptation from the restaurant and supermarket on either side of the Hunger Show has already claimed 20 protesters. The hundred which remain are sustained inside a transparent plastic enclosure by water rations and emergency health services...