Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Enfant's broad avenues, Washington long ago became a blighted city, with some of the U.S.'s worst slums and nightmarish traffic. By 1950 the rush to the suburbs was in full surge, tax revenues were plunging, building within the city was at a standstill, and the downtown area alone was short 29,000 parking spaces. Effective plans for rehabilitating the city were lost in the bureaucratic babble of congressional committees, commissions, boards and councils that govern Washington...
Window to the World. Harassed at every turn, the opposition was unable to rent headquarters in downtown Lisbon, had to settle for three fly-blown rooms in a condemned slum tenement (rent: $400 for 30 days). Posing as sympathizers, secret police tried to worm their way into the organization; one was spotted and nearly lynched. Censors either suppressed candidates' statements, delayed them until the government had its reply ready, or simply doctored them to suit Salazar. The Roman Catholic hierarchy, which has had its differences with Salazar, published a message cautioning Catholics not to vote for "Communists or their...
Guess all of us here have been too busy watching Detroit grow to realize we are about to become a ghost town. Busy watching miles of expressways being built within the city limits, new buildings going up in the downtown area. Apartment buildings replacing inadequate housing. New schools, and those classrooms will all be filled...
...ordinary Detroit citizens as well as dedicated, progressive city leaders are up in arms about TIME's only part-true, negative reporting on Detroit [Oct. 27]. The postwar years have been used to reshape Detroit's downtown area with a beautiful civic center; and numerous other improvements are under way-all in a little more than a decade...
...dictator's son and heir. Ramfis Trujillo Jr. Mobs of students swarmed off the university campus in Ciudad Trujillo, smashing statues of the dead tyrant and shouting "Viva la revolución!" One rampaging band of 400 students and sympathizers proclaimed a four-block stretch of downtown Ciudad Trujillo as "free territory." defended it with rocks and cast iron water-meter covers until 100 police drove them out with tear gas and Tommy-gun bursts. Week's toll: four dead, scores injured. At the height of the disorders, Washington confirmed that two brothers of the slain dictator...