Word: downtown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scott's biggest problems is the parlous state of relations between Republican Senators and "downtown," an often pejorative Capitol Hill term for the executive branch. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky has been getting no answers to his letters to Postmaster General Winton Blount; when Blount invited Cooper to his office recently to talk over a Post Office problem, Cooper refused to come. Colorado's Peter Dominick is still seething over a contretemps with a second-echelon Treasury Department official, and even Karl Mundt of South Dakota-a staunch Nixon loyalist-complains of the "remoteness" of Administration staffers...
...Lyndon Johnson; and then I read where Nixon was gonna declare war on pollution, so I wrote him. I wrote Ronald Reagan and I wrote Mayor Yorty. I wrote the airlines, the car manufacturers and J. Edgar Hoover. Sometimes I picket. We had a couple of breathe-ins downtown; we wore health masks into the county supervisors' offices. There isn't much time left. We make more smog, inside our houses, you know, from all those jet cans: beer cans, shaving cream, hair spray. I often wonder if there's any Communist payoffs behind the smog...
...demonstrations include last Saturday's women's rally at Fenway, a several-day protest against war research projects at MIT, and a mass march in downtown Boston next Saturday. In preparation for the demonstrations, the coalition has helped to establish radical organizations in many colleges and high schools where little previous political activity existed...
After speading the night legally occupying the M. I. T. student center, NAC win begin picket lines around the instrumentation Laboratories, to hall research being undertaken there. A march through downtown Boston on Saturday will conclude the "week of struggle...
...SUITE containing the Collier's classroom and offices, on the ninth floor of a downtown Louisville office building, seemed like a movie mockup. Footsteps of bosses shuttling through the outer office and past its permanently vacant secretary's desk echoed the through the vaguely uninhabited rooms...