Word: downtowne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dictator is no longer derisive. Last week, in Colon Cemetery in Havana, he dropped his broad face in his hands and wept as a guard of honor buried Colonel Fermin Cowley, 47, one of his top commanders, who was gunned down by a carload of Castro men on a downtown street near his headquarters in Holguin (pop. 36,000) in rebel-ridden Oriente province...
...downtown San Francisco and all along the Bohemian strip known as North Beach, other poets and hipsters were gigging together to the raucous applause of the city's beard-and-sandal set. The poetry was usually poor and the jazz was worse, but nobody seemed to care. Record business was being done by dim little jazz spots such as the Sail'N and the Black Hawk-the Taj Mahal of West Coast jazz, where Dave Brubeck blew himself to fame. And at the Tin Angel, on the waterfront, Trumpeter Dick Mills and his combo were playing with...
...general: "People of Guatemala! If they give it to the Italian [Italian-descended Ortiz], we shall march!" That evening a temporary coalition of Ydigoras' rightists and non-Communist leftists, needled by a few Reds, and all united only in opposition to the M.D.N., marched into Central Park in downtown , Guatemala City, brushed aside the police and set off the first riot...
...Communist groups." Some 300 helmeted troops and cops, armed with Tommy guns and armored cars, deployed before the National Palace, but the raging mob formed again, and charged until driven off by tear gas and cracking rifles. A girl died of a bullet in the back of her head; downtown Guatemala City was littered with broken glass, tree limbs and burnt crates...
SHOPPERS' STAMPS redeemable for either bus rides or parking-lot fees are catching on with downtown stores, anxious to relieve customers' traffic problems. Fifty downtown Milwaukee stores are issuing stamps worth 5? for every dollar spent, and 50 other cities already have similar plans...