Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...redesigning the Wayne State University campus in downtown Detroit,--an accomplishment that undoubtedly brought him to Harvard's attention--Yamasaki said, "At Wayne we are aiming for an island of urban delight--a lovely system of courts linking the building, all on a walking scale...
Yamasaki has designed everything from an office building, a plush suburban home, and a downtown mall to a freeway. He has done the famous Reynolds Metals Building near Detroit, several house of worship, the U.S. consulate in Kobe, Japan, an airport in Saudi Arabia and the U.S. pavilion for the 1959 World Agriculture Fair in India...
...eleven-story building of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd., in downtown Melbourne, is stark and cheerless, almost down at the heels, by U.S. corporate standards. And its tenant is fusty and taciturn. But . B.H.P., as the 77-year-old steelmaker is known Down Under, has paced- and made possible-the galloping growth of Australian industry since World War II. In the process, it has become a sort of Australian version of A.T. & T., refuting the old dictum that basic industry in a democracy cannot be entrusted to a monopoly...
Behind the bolted doors of a headquarters in downtown Buenos Aires, 150 youths snapped to attention, clicked their heels and gave a Nazi-style straight-arm salute. At a command, three high school boys entered the room. The neophytes chorused an oath, swearing to defend with their lives "the permanent values of Christianity and country." Then they swelled their chests as a blue and white Maltese Cross was pinned to their lapels. Cried the leader of the meeting, Alberto Ezcurra Uriburu, 26: "We must fight with one hand against capitalism and Zionism, and with the other against Communism...
...groups of Protestant businessmen and factory hands who gather during the day to pray in common for such causes as world peace and the recovery of sick friends. Detroit Lawyer Robert Choate. a Congregationalist. belongs to a cell of laymen who gather at 8 a.m. each Wednesday in a downtown office and hold a session of prayer. "All through the state I keep hearing of people who get together aside from regular church hours and pray," he says...