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When she started scouting for loans to finance a community-owned supermarket early last year, Harlem's Cora T. Walker could hardly complain about discrimination. White banks, local antipoverty agencies and well-to-do Negroes were equally uninterested. "We had no assets and no balance sheets," she explains, "and my board of directors couldn't give any personal guarantees." But before long, Miss Walker and the 16-member board of the Harlem River Consumers Cooperative found a hidden asset-in the fact that the people they were trying to help were willing to help themselves...
...owner-customers, some of whom were enlisted by teen-agers selling $5 shares. The coop, says Miss Walker, 42, a practicing Harlem attorney, is the first Harlem store in which "the community has a vested interest." Cash Rebate. That interest is green as well as black. The supermarket aims to reward its customers with an annual cash rebate on their purchases (perhaps $50 for every $1,000 worth of goods bought) and, eventually, dividends on their stock. There will be other returns as well. The store promises to create 50 new jobs, outdo local chain stores in offering such "ethnic...
...inventory, which included a $3,000 supply of imported wines. In Los Angeles a similar post-Watts effort called the "Unity Market" is now just a memory. Says Watts's Rev. James Hargett: "It's a bad thing for black people to think they can run a supermarket just on soul...
...Fonda), who has recently lost his wife, returns to shore duty to take care of his ten momless moppets. Trying to run a family like a taut ship, he first finds the kids mutinous-just like Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music. But then, shopping at a supermarket, he runs into an attractive widow (Lucille Ball). She too is a casualty of-and contributor to-the population explosion, with eight unmanageable offspring...
...joined in the pillage. Often cops stood by without hindering looters. In New York City, lone patrolmen sometimes were ordered to ignore the plundering and avert traffic backups that could make riot scenes more perilous. In Pittsburgh, one eager bargain seeker stocked up a shopping cart at a looted supermarket, rolled it out into an alley, bumped into a cop and asked blandly: "Is this the way to the checkout counter...