Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knocked an elderly white woman through a plate-glass window; a white woman and a Negro woman got into a hair-pulling match, and the town boiled over. In a sudden rush of business. Sears Roebuck sold 50 ax handles in 15 minutes. Sit-in demonstrators on their way downtown were met by a club-wielding mob. By the time the police got around to stopping the riot, Jacksonville was suffering from an epidemic of broken heads...
Standing hatless under a hot Southern sun last week, Vice President Nixon could wonder whether his brains had been fried to the point of sunstroke. There he stood in the heart of the solid South, in downtown Atlanta's Hurt Park, while a cheering crowd of 45,000 stretched to the eye's limit. There beside him stood Atlanta's grey-thatched Mayor William B. Hartsfield. Democratic to the core but proclaiming the need for a Southern two-party system because "we want to be part of the main stream of American life." Following the mayor came...
Confident Guess. In Atlanta an hour later, Nixon got an even rowdier welcome. A yellow banner at the airport proclaimed, "It's Nixon Day in Atlanta." Changing downtown from a closed to an open car, Pat and Dick suddenly found themselves on a ten-block parade route that was choked with 150,000 people. For the second time, the Nixons were bombarded with confetti, pulled and pawed by enthusiastic Atlantans, who broke past Secret Service men to reach for a hand shake...
...most important fact in Norfolk's life (indeed, the U.S. Government provides 40% of Norfolk's payroll)-but many of the city's citizens have never quite got over the feeling that for years prompted them to post "Dogs and Sailors Not Allowed" signs. Part of downtown Norfolk remains a warren of grimy apartments and noisy taverns, but urban renewal projects have swept other parts to make way for public housing, hospitals, and a $15 million civic center...
Flexible & Functional. They came as much to see the sights as they did to hear the music. Only a few yards from the Drottningholm (Queen's Island) summer palace and only 20 minutes from downtown Stockholm, the long green lawns and fountains surrounding the theater set it centuries back in time. The building is still owned by the royal family. It has never been damaged, changed or remodeled, and some of its 400 seats still bear the name plates of Queen Lovisa's household staff (King's Great Watch in the front rows, palace kitchen wenches...