Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that were built before 1880, 50% have no bathrooms, and at least 500,000 are officially designated as slums. Britain in the next 20 years will have to build a minimum of 300,000 houses a year. The shortage is compounded by a steady influx of office buildings into downtown areas and an exodus of city dwellers to the suburbs, where land grows ever more scarce and costly. Outside London, the government may even be compelled to build new towns in the Green Belts, as Britons call the jealously preserved rural areas around their cities...
Father Flanagan. But Flanagan is often heard playing well beyond the range of the virtuosos he accompanies. His touch is perhaps the most melodic in jazz, and in improvisation a beguilingly simple rhythmic sense keeps his left hand engaged with the housework while his right hand goes downtown. In recording studios, where he is fondly known as "Father Flanagan," engineers preen on his performances because his easy handling of the piano avoids the percussive exaggerations that mar most jazz piano recordings...
...free medical plan that pays 80 of their families' ordinary doctors' bills, more in emergencies. Defensive Halfback Jesse Whittenton owns the King's (X). a supper club in Green Bay: End Gary Knafelc is vice president of a school supply company, and Bart Starr manages a downtown business building. Paul Hornung, who draws $25,000 in salary, makes another $25,000 or so each year modeling sports clothes for Jantzen. puffing Marlboros and falling asleep in front of his Zenith...
Earlier in Chicago and in Tennessee, he designed a summer auditorium for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the first private redevelopment project in Chicago, one-billion-dollars of industrial buildings for the Tennessee Valley Authority, a new downtown for Oak Ridge, Tenn., and another major shopping center, as well as residences...
...Downtown Pomona's physical face lifting has led to a new elan among storekeepers and their customers. Shops have been refurbished, stocks have been replenished, new businesses have moved in. "There's an air of excitement and pride," says one Pomonan. "I was downtown last Sunday, and there must have been 500 people just walking up and down the street looking in the store windows. I can't remember how long it's been since people came downtown on Sunday." Exclaimed a merchant: "Why, I came out of my store at midnight the other night...