Word: downtowne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Socked In. The Nixon motorcade sped nine miles down Glacier Highway along the Gastineau Channel to downtown Juneau. There, in a Front Street theater around the corner from the Red Dog Saloon, Nixon was greeted by about 1,000 Alaskans (Juneau's pop. 7,000). Missing were several of the top Alaska Republican candidates, including former Governor Mike Stepovich, now running for the Senate, and the only Republican given a real chance in the 49th state this year. Stepovich and his running mates had been socked in at Sitka and Anchorage by the foul weather...
...Passing. In Denver, three applicants for driver's licenses, each accompanied by a state motor-vehicle-license examiner, crashed in a three-way accident on a downtown street...
...have been believed." As a result, many stores are changing sales tactics. The J. L. Hudson Co., Detroit's top department store, no longer allows "was-is" advertising in its newspaper or house displays; instead, it insists on such low-key language as "on sale" or "specially priced." Downtown stores in Chicago, Milwaukee and Indianapolis have agreed to stop advertising comparative prices on mattresses...
...unless you have a good tax base and don't mind losing money." A good tax base is exactly what Stevens has-real estate operations ranging all the way from buying the Empire State Building in 1951 (he resold it in 1954) to subleasing a vast section of downtown Seattle. But Stevens also has another, special asset: he knows how to put the touch on other people. He raises vast sums as quickly as he can raise a telephone. Says Playwright Marc (Green Pastures) Connelly: "Stevens is a stage-struck shrewdie who brings nothing to the theater...
...Reynolds Metals Co. asked for was a new set of the most efficient offices they could get, and Gordon Bunshaft, design partner of famed Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, produced a high-efficiency aluminum, glass and steel building, set squarely behind its own private reflecting pool five miles north of downtown Richmond, citadel of the Old Dominion's fanciers of mellow brick, white porticoes and neo-Monticello atmosphere. Reynolds expected furious protests from wave on wave of outraged Virginians. Instead, the distinguished director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Leslie Cheek Jr., told them that whether they knew...