Word: downtowne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days Perón was a boxer, skier, crack shot, swordsman, horseman, speedboater and racing-car driver. But in recent years motorcycling has become the aging (59) No. 1 sportsman's No. 1 sport. He often takes a spin on the grounds of his suburban estate or his downtown presidential residence, and now and then he rides through the city streets, accompanied by two or three police cars...
...Toni frolicked in the playroom at the City of Hope, 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles, she looked like an average, happy two-year-old. Usually treated as an outpatient, she had been kept in the hospital a few days because of a cold and swelling in her lymph nodes. She was much better after a blood transfusion, and would probably be home before New Year's Day. Toni has acute leukemia, commonest of the cancers and related disorders that annually kill more U.S. children than any other group of diseases...
Noel, Noel. A while later, Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen launched into a seasonal mercy speech. "I had a moment to spend downtown the other day," he said. "I could hear the Gramophones and radios pealing out the lovely words and phrases which somehow give animation to people in this one season and that somehow soften the spirit-Hark! the Herald Angels Sing and 0, Little Town of Bethlehem." The members of the Senate, suggested Dirksen, should soften their spirits toward Joe McCarthy...
...Beane, gave $400,000 to Harvard Medical School (endowment: $23 million). Banker Merrill (an Amherst man himself) made the gift to establish a special professorship for heart diseases, to be named for Harvard Heart Specialist Samuel A. Levine. Dr. Levine. 63, the son of Polish immigrants, peddled newspapers in downtown Boston as a child, went through Harvard College and Medical School (Class of '14) on a scholarship from the Boston Newsboys' Union. A leading authority on coronary thrombosis, Levine is Merrill's close friend and physician, is credited by Merrill with saving his life when the banker...
...wages and got no benefits from Boss Beck, who condemned their wildcat strike. For almost a year a third of Pittsburgh's 1,250-man police force was tied up patrolling the picket lines, and the city businessmen lost an estimated $100 million as shoppers stayed away from downtown...