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...merely another grim episode in the I.R.A.'s attempt to force unity of the two Irelands through guerrilla warfare. On Monday morning alone, a dozen explosions ripped Belfast. Among the damaged targets were the city's best hotel (the Conway), a clothing factory, a furniture store, a supermarket, an antique shop, an insurance office, a railway station and a television-rental company. Next day bombs blasted two pubs, a laundry and a bicycle store...
...gray, windy morning in a dusty town near the Mexican border, a battered old van with VOLUNTEER BORDER RELIEF lettered in green on the side pulls up behind a supermarket. The figure who hauls himself from the cab looks like the local citizen most in need of relief. Ferree, 77, a stooped 6 ft. 6 in., has bowed legs, deteriorating teeth and a face that looks like an old rock weathered by dust storms. Indeed, he is the scavenger he appears; for 25 years he has scuttled through the alleys of Harlingen, scrounging loaves of day-old bread, wilting fruit...
Some are, many are not. "Raw agricultural products," meaning those that go from grower to buyer without processing, are exempt from price controls. They include fruits and vegetables sold at the supermarket produce counter, but not meat and eggs, which are trimmed, packaged or otherwise "processed." Imported foods, like other foreign goods, are surtaxed on entry to the U.S. and are not subject to price controls on original sale, but are thereafter...
Alice left home in Wilmette, 111., to work in a San Francisco supermarket. Darlene, from Chicago, took off for Frankfurt, Germany, to live with a bus driver. Florence abandoned Lake Forest, 111., to become an artist in Spain, and Rose left Hartford to live with another woman in Chicago...
...Nancy Portnof got no satisfaction when she complained to the manager of a Manhattan supermarket about a rise in the price of frozen orange juice from 55? for two cans to 30? for one can during the freeze. "He just told me to shop somewhere else," she says. Taking him at his word, Mrs. Portnof organized 20 families into a buying union that shops wholesale markets for food...