Word: downtowne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the stormy week ended, Frondizi had the backing of big business, the neutrality of a large section of the military, a truce with most of his political opponents. For the first time in weeks, he pulled a beret on his head and took a half-hour stroll on downtown streets. "It may be merely another trick," moaned a coup-bent general-from his hiding place...
...bustling Saturday evening in downtown Algiers, and as the Rue d'Isly swirled with last minute shoppers, there was a sharp explosion. When the smoke lifted, there lay underneath a shattered car all that was left of a 16-year-old Moslem who had held on to his grenade too long. Unnoticed among the curious crowd that gathered, a soberly dressed, respectable-looking, middle-aged Frenchwoman quickly bent down and picked up one of the dead terrorist's severed fingers. Putting it in her handbag, she snapped the clasp and slipped away...
...mayor, city manager, city council, charter or legal existence. As president of the Cannon Mills Co., vested proprietor of Kannapolis, Charles Cannon presides over trash collection, fire fighting and street maintenance, collects rent from 1,700 homes, subsidizes the police department and owns most municipal real estate, including the downtown business district. He also employs the majority of the town's wage earners...
...Mike Monroney on Washington's 32nd Street. It was an amiable, comfortable evening, with little serious political shop talk. But as it neared an end, one Democratic patriarch turned to the patriarchal guest of honor. Said House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 77, to Harry Truman: "Let me drop you downtown." From that offer came a political compact, soon whispered among Democratic professionals, that, with a wild scramble for the Democratic presidential nomination in prospect for next year, could become one of the most important political developments...
Unknown to Jones, however, a cameraman filmed the meeting from a parked panel truck. And when Jones drove into a downtown parking lot to make his payoff, state investigators and newsmen peered from a nearby building...