Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wind. Their idea was to measure the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) against the speed of the earth's motion on its orbit around the sun (18.5 miles per second). They set up their apparatus, an affair of many mirrors, in a lab in a downtown Cleveland building. Once a day the earth's rotation aligned the apparatus with the earth's path around the sun. If there were an ether wind, the light flashing across their lab floor should be slowed by 18.5 miles per second. Twelve hours later, the apparatus would...
Behind yellow and green holiday lights festooned across a 23-story concrete building in downtown Havana, the select inner ring of Fidel Castro's chaotic dictatorship this week celebrates its first anniversary in power. The building is not the national palace or the long-deserted Congress, but the tightly guarded headquarters of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA). Yugoslav Theoretician Milovan Djilas once observed that the first duty of any Communist revolutionary is to destroy the political force that brought him to power and replace it with an enormous, patronage-rich bureaucracy. Castro has quietly smashed...
...filled both of them with "roisterers, fun guys, rompers" and the sort of girls they liked to romp with. To the pressagents' delight, he became notorious as a columnist puncher, cop clobberer and practical joker -the fellow who wired the ladies' room at home and walked through downtown Chicago with a half-grown lion on a leash...