Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clouds of balloons floated out over the harbor and bright flags decorated staid old Bay Street in downtown Nassau. Past the reviewing stand, filled with bewigged and berobed colony officials, marched rows of schoolboys while policemen in starched white uniforms stood stiffly at attention and thousands of children sang and cheered. Thus did something called "limited independence" come to the Bahamas, Great Britain's 700 islands scattered over 90,000 square miles of sunny ocean off the tip of Florida...
...army engineers broke through the walls of both the Hilton and the Arab League Headquarters building, 100 yards distant, and linked the two with a temporary esplanade carpeted in vivid green. Some 2,000 soldiers and police provided security, and traffic, forced to detour around the summit area, snarled downtown Cairo...
...ascending line of "tallest buildings in the world," Manhattan learned this week that there are not one but two still taller structures in its future. Soon to rise is a twin-towered World Trade Center, each pinnacle 110 stories high, that will make the city's familiar pointy downtown skyline look like a toy village...
...annual Blue-Gray football game because Negroes are not eligible to participate. Only 22 states have enforceable fair-employment laws on the books. And not counting Mississippi, where there is a total absence of integrated public facilities, those in other Southern states are so spotty and inconsistent (a downtown lunch counter, yes; the city swimming pool, no) that it is hard for a Negro nowadays to know where he may go and where...
...York law firm of Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd will henceforth be known as Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander. Michigan's Governor George Romney, whose chances for the nomination dimmed after he failed to get his state tax reform program through the legislature, went handshaking in Detroit, greeted downtown shoppers by saying "Hi there. This state had a deficit when we took office, but now it has a surplus. Merry Christmas." And in Illinois, a group of Republicans announced that they would enter the name of Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith in their state's presidential primary in April...