Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steaming black coffee. The sight of Cuban women in hip-hugging skirts and slacks is savored by Latin loungers on every streetcorner. Tickets for the bolita, an illegal lottery, are discreetly sold under the counter. The scene might well be Havana's Prado. But it is actually downtown Miami...
...thousands of visitors who have known and loved Chicago, the city has always seemed changeless. But they should see it now: Chicago is in the midst of a building boom that is transforming its downtown area...
More to Come. This year, half a dozen major buildings were completed in downtown Chicago, including the 41-story, marble-faced home office of the United Insurance Co. of America and a $10 million, 600-room addition to the Sheraton-Chicago Hotel. Now abuilding are another half-dozen handsome structures ranging from an eight-story headquarters for the American College of Surgeons to the 17-story headquarters of the United States Gypsum...
Last week San Francisco hotly debated Lowell's fate. At issue: School Superintendent Harold Spears's plan to shift Lowell from its condemned building in downtown San Francisco to new quarters in a middle-income district-and slash its "outside" students to 40% of enrollment. "If you pile up all your top students in one place," said Superintendent Spears, "you're hurting the city as a whole. We believe in equality of education...
...pains of the U.S.'s typewriter-making Underwood Corp., and other European giants such as France's glassmaking Saint-Gobain and Germany's chemical-making Bayer have opened U.S. branches with U.S. partners. One British real estate syndicate-Boston British Properties, Inc.-even intends to rejuvenate downtown Boston, has bought a tract near the scene of the Boston Tea Party to put up the city's tallest building - a 30-story. $20-million affair...