Word: downtowne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Tancredo Martínez Garcia, 41, exiled leader of an anti-Trujillo party, stepped off the elevator on the third floor of a downtown Mexico City office building. From the staircase a voice called "Martínez Garcia." Martnez turned and caught a bullet full in the face. The gunman, thought to be a professional Cuban gun slinger, grabbed Martnez' briefcase, then scuttled from the building undetected. Only in one detail did the shooting vary from the pattern: the bullet ripped through Martnez' cheek and neck, missing a vital spot...
...Detroit this week, architects are busy on plans to convert the bustling, downtown Park Avenue Hotel (240 rooms) into a home for the aged, to be run by the Salvation Army, and renamed Eventide Residence. The Roman Catholic Church has just finished converting the downtown Detroiter (750 rooms) into a rest home named Carmel Hall. In Dallas, eight blocks from the center of town, the 126-room Ambassador Hotel has become a residential hotel for the aged (part of a six-state, 13-hotel chain for old people). One of the specifications of a projected home in Atlanta is that...
...meantime they want to stay near the activity of life." Adds Director Frank C. Selfridge of Evanston's James C. King Home: "They're not interested in the birds and the bees. They want to see the world go by." Doctors approve moving the old people downtown because it is a morale booster that staves off loneliness and boredom, makes the aged feel they still belong to society. Many of the homes allow the oldsters full freedom of action, without curfew. "We were really surprised when we noticed some of our people going out about...
Hunch Player. Just as he hit his stride, Cox decided to quit. He got caught between the lines in a pitched battle between "downtown" alumni and Coach "Cowboy" Johnny Cherberg, and when his own eligibility proved to be at stake, he packed his gear and moved to Minnesota. National Collegiate Athletic Association rules kept Transfer Student Cox on the sidelines for a long, tough season. Then he busied himself by getting married once more. But his new wife has been forced to share him with his first love: football. Bobby still mixes his plays with fine disdain for classic strategy...
...downtown Little Rock today, there was no indication of the racial strife which had plagued the city for almost a month. Negroes and whites stood next to each other to watch the two-mile parade which opened the Livestock Ex-position, and there were no incidents...