Word: downtowne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adjoining "white Leo" is the teeming "native town," known to the Negroes as Le Beige. Without its 350,000 Africans, Leopoldville would crumble in the tropical sun. Each morning, thousands of Negroes bicycle into downtown Leo to work in the shipyards and offices. Evenings, they stream homeward to the jumble of shacks, tenements, modern homes and tastefully built hospitals that make up "black Leo." In the darkness, millions of candles glow under the mango trees where Negro market women do a roaring trade in bread, beer and dried fish, green-and-brown-striped caterpillars (a delicacy when fried in deep...
...pared-down technical committee on immunology began meeting with Surgeon General Scheele and Dr. Salk at the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Md., ten miles from downtown Washington. The session lasted until...
...Joao Cafe Filho, President of a onetime Portuguese colony that became a nation 100 times as big and seven times as populous as the motherland. Met at dockside by figurehead President Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes and Strongman Oliveira Salazar, Café Filho began his state visit by riding through downtown Lisbon in an open car, along flag-decorated streets jammed with smiling, cheering people. Torrents of confetti in the Brazilian national colors cascaded downward, green from one side of the street, yellow from the other. The pace of the welcome never let up. Before boarding a plane for home last...
...barriers between Protestant denominations. The Rev. George L. Ford, executive director of the ultraconservative N.A.E., told the organization's convention in Chicago that unless it is stopped, "the liberal ecumenical movement will usurp the rights of the churches." The ecumenical movement, he said, favors such things as "downtown worship centers which would not only take the place of regular Protestant churches, but would be headquarters for Catholics and Jews as well." Cried N.A.E. President Henry H. Savage: "The only statement of faith of [the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches] is so inane that...
...flying glass. That was only the beginning: the note warned that a second bomb was set to go off before noon the next day. In the meantime, Frank was to pay out $50,000. From 6:30 to 7 that Friday evening, an agent was to stand outside the downtown Imperial Hotel with a carnation in his lapel, and the money in small bills packed in a light-colored suitcase. At 7 he was to enter a certain phone booth and wait. Frank showed the note to the police. At 7:08 p.m. a police agent was in the booth...