Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAST time that the Harvard Band was arrested for disturbing the peace, New Haven residents were overly upset at the Band's impromptu parade through downtown New Haven at 3 a.m. on the night before the Yale game. That was in 1962, and since then, the Band has changed considerably...
...city that cultivates Southern mannerisms. The waitresses smile and drawl just that way. The blacks keep the government buildings clean, drive the buses, and increasingly, are the cops. The commercial downtown is a pastiche of Woolworths and cheap department stores. It was into this America that a half million people from another America marched...
...ceremony was sickeningly familiar, from the lackluster prose of the speakers who never really moved the chilled crowd to the final rampages of a few Weatherman-types through the streets of downtown Washington. Even the cops were used to the script this time. It was easy to engage them in friendly conversation and they rarely got mad even as they methodically tossed the tear-gas canisters into crowds of chanting youths...
After the assault on the White House area, many of the radicals formed street gangs and broke windows for several hours in the downtown area before police could stop them...
...most of the demonstrators had dispersed through the downtown area. Police sealed off streets around the demonstration to isolate the scattered groups remaining there. National Guardsmen also appeared on the streets for the first time about...