Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Townes Hope was born in England, and his family moved to the U.S. when he was four. He was one of seven sons of a possessive mother who had all the boys competing with one another for her affections, the winner being the one who got to go into downtown Cleveland with her on Saturdays. Something like this lingers on in Hope's relationships with his writers. He watches over them as if they were children. He always knows where they are. No retreat in New York, Europe or the Far East is so secluded that Hope...
...Progress by a decade. Instead the Corps sent young (average age: 23) unprofessionals whose reference cards listed summer jobs growing up on a farm, a college major, or 4-H work. The volunteer from Memphis, Tenn., who as a high school student had tuned up cars in a downtown garage walked into a mechanic shop in Bahia and was helpless. Another corpsman was selected for geology, but by the time he arrived at his station, he had lost interest in the field...
...were walking in a column, carrying no signs, singing softly. Knight was just ahead of me, singing too, very proud, very straight. We had intended to walk into the white downtown area. But the cops stopped us long before we reached it. When they came down on us, I watched Knight's reaction, and I could see that it was painful for him to submit to the roughing up and the arrest without a fight...
...Mafra and 20 engineers roared out of the base in two troop trucks. To avoid downtown traffic, Mafra guided his tiny convoy through the coastal hills, only to run into a traffic jam caused by an accident. By the time they finally reached the hospital, it was 8 a.m. Lacerda had just left-after his secret service got a last-minute tip that troops were...
...violators have made the pigeon rara avis there. Authorities in Buffalo are also making a fight to the finish. They employ five fulltime exterminators, who trap pigeons wherever they can and unobtrusively kill them by wringing their necks. The exterminators are also crack marksmen and shoot pigeons downtown in the early morning...