Word: downtowne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After breakfast and a careful scanning of Formosa papers and others flown in from Hong Kong, Chiang dons his khaki cape, enters his 1949 Cadillac, and makes the 25-minute drive to his office in the Ministry of National Defense in downtown Taipei (pop. 500,000). Soldiers of the security force appear as if by magic along the route, then as magically melt away after he has passed. Past a dark bronze bust of himself on the stair landing, he walks quickly and alone to his third-floor office, where the blue velvet curtains are always drawn for security...
Under a grey late-afternoon sky, some 15,000 hymn-chanting men and women paraded in downtown Buenos Aires last week, following a sound truck manned by priests...
...carried yearly. At the same time, operating costs have soared (wages and equipment up almost 100%), and operating income (before bond interest and stock dividends) has plunged from $149 million to $41 million. Since 1947, 40 major companies have gone broke. Because of the rapid deterioration of transit facilities, downtown merchants are losing trade to the suburbs, office workers are quitting jobs in downtown business districts, and in the most heavily congested areas real-estate values are going down and urban blight is going...
...health insurance like Blue Cross and thus face the unwelcome prospect of a double expense. Moreover, the student who is forced to undergo a serious operation may find himself in acute financial difficulties under the present system. While his University fee pays for such expenses as ward costs in downtown hospitals, laboratory fees, and X-rays, it does not cover another major medical item, the surgeon's fee. And the current program has worked a hardship on married students. For they must still pay the University medical fee, even though many join a regular health insurance plan in order...
Between 60 and 70 "young marrieds" will work in couples, getting others like themselves started in Christian discussion groups, or as religious ambassadors to men's and women's groups. Businessmen will be approached at their places of business; downtown luncheon sessions have already been set up, and department heads in some companies are planning brief sessions in their offices during coffee breaks...