Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headlines proclaimed to downtown Boston "Cuba To Kill 500 Invaders," the Boston Chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee demonstrated for two hours Saturday afternoon against alleged American support of the Cuban counter-revolutionary invasion...
Over 120 participated in the "Fair Play" group's picketing in a march up and down Tremont St. between the corners of Boylston and Park. Carrying signs such as "Peace on Earth" and "Is the CIA Our Peace Corps?", the marchers at first drew little reaction from the downtown crowd. But as hostile groups began to form around 3 p.m., the demonstrators called for a halt to the two-hour protest...
...Republicans mounted a hot campaign by charging Democratic election frauds in Chicago in the last presidential election. They set trees out in buckets on downtown sidewalks, proclaiming: BEAUTIFY OUR STREETS-ELECT LINDY. But Lindenbusch himself put on a stumbling, colorless campaign, and the Republican effort came to nothing. Ray Tucker won every one of St. Louis' 28 wards, and it was widely agreed that Ben Lindenbusch, who had never before run for public office, never should again...
...primetime, 60-second spot: $40. The Bonjour is owned by a wheeler-dealer Texan, Dallas Tycoon Robert F. Thompson, whose other interests include seven U.S. radio stations, five U.S. TV stations, and a sometime partnership with Millionaire Clint Murchison Jr. Radio Nord's programs are taped in downtown Stockholm and delivered regularly to the Bonjour by motor launch, along with the plugs from eager sponsors. The whole deal has proved so successful that Thompson is already considering putting pirate ships off Goteborg and in the Mediterranean, off France...
...Embassy. The mob, 20,000 strong, surged from downtown Lisbon up the broad, tree-lined Avenida da Liberdades, and hove to in front of the U.S. embassy right on schedule at 6:30 p.m., while there was still just enough light for the assembled cameras. Led on by loudspeaker trucks, the rioters screamed, "Down with America!" "Down with the U.N.!" and "Leave Angola to us!" They flaunted all manner of banners, which someone had conveniently supplied, demanding that the U.S. "Liberate Hungary First," "Get Out of Alaska," and "Remember Little Rock." Someone had also brought along rocks enough to smash...