Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever a city stood as a symbol of the dynamic U.S. economy, it was Detroit. It was not pretty. It was, in fact, a combination of the grey and the garish: its downtown area was a warren of dingy, twisting streets; the used-car lots along Livernois Avenue raised an aurora of neon. But Detroit cared less about how it looked than about what it did-and it did plenty. In two world wars, it served as an arsenal of democracy. In the auto boom after World War II. Detroit put the U.S. on wheels as it had never been...
...nights in succession the Algerians held protest marches through downtown Paris and its industrial suburbs. By day, thousands of men, women and children staged demonstrations throughout northeastern France. As fast as they could catch them, police and security troops hauled the Algerians off to improvised detention centers, including a psychiatric hospital. At week's end, 15,000 had been bagged for what officials bragged was "the highest number of individual arrests ever made by the Paris police." By official count, the riots had taken five lives (all Algerian save one) and injured 60. Unofficially, the toll was reckoned three...
...Miller's Cafeteria, in downtown Denver, four young women met for the afternoon coffee break-and almost immediately began talking about what weighed heaviest on their minds. Said Louise Epperson, a bank clerk: "I'd just as soon be killed as come out of a shelter and see the country desolated.'' Gail Pitts, an account executive with a public relations firm, felt differently. "I want to be around when it's all over," she said, "but I must admit I don't care too much about the idea of a fallout shelter. Still...
Though tanks still peered through the shrubbery in downtown Damascus, Syria was calm. After Gamal Abdel Nasser had resigned himself to Syria's breakaway from the United Arab Republic ("May Allah help beloved Syria"), the world's nations hastened to welcome the newly independent state. In a blaze of flashbulbs and official smiles, U.S. Consul General Ridgway B. Knight drove up to the rose-walled Foreign Office in Damascus last week and presented a note extending formal recognition. Three days earlier, the new regime, coolly and without publicity, accepted Soviet recognition. Said one longtime Western observer: "This...
...history of politics. By committing the Federal Government to pay the states 90% of the costs. Congress made the prospect of highway-construction business so irresistible that many localities went overboard. Some cities called in caravans of bulldozers and sent them crashing through the heart of their downtown areas with out regard for future core-city planning. Other localities rushed to put down roads where none were needed. Sample: in Nevada, after three federal highway interchanges were built for $384,000, investigators clocked an average traffic run of only 89 cars a day; one of the interchanges gives...