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...gritty N.Y.P.D. interrogation room, the camera pans over the usual cast (a detective, a stenographer, a prosecutor) before zooming in on the suspect. Clifford Brighton, 22, with pockmarks and a bruised eye, describes how he held up a supermarket earlier that day using a hostage: "I grabbed the cop and stuck a gun in him and took him into the store...
...store windows of Los Angeles, gathering place of the world's aspiring peoples, the signs today ought to read, "English spoken here." Supermarket price tags are often written in Korean, restaurant menus in Chinese, employment-office signs in Spanish. In the new city of dreams, where gold can be earned if not found on the sidewalk, there are laborers and businessmen who have lived five, ten, 20 years in America without learning to speak English. English is not the common denominator for many of these new Americans. Disturbingly, some of them insist it need...
...bankers in New York that Mexico would not be able to make scheduled payments, due over the following 90 days, of more than $3 billion. Weak oil prices had robbed the country of anticipated revenues and left it almost penniless. Says Jorge Chapa, co-owner of a large Mexican supermarket chain: "We were rich at $16 per bbl. of oil, and at $32 we were broke because we spent as if the price were already...
...plastics replaced many paper and cellophane wrappings in the '60s. In brown bags and school lunch boxes across the U.S., little boxes of fruit juice and other drinks are becoming as commonplace as potato chips and soggy sandwiches. Says Dick Ponte, a vice president of Stop & Shop, a supermarket chain: "We're having trouble keeping them on the shelves...
Like the condemned man of the anecdote, most Americans still recoil instinctively from any kind of mushroom that is not snow white, cellophane wrapped and supermarket sanitized. In the past few years, however, the succulent edible fungi that grow wild for the picking in almost every part of the country have found ever increasing acceptance in restaurant and home menus. At Dean & DeLuca, a Manhattan gourmet emporium that sells up to 100 Ibs. of fresh domestic wild mushrooms a week, Produce Purchasing Manager Lee Grimsbo notes, "People are beginning to think of them as a cooking item rather than something...