Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Characteristic Mixture. Then it was on to the Ambassador Hotel, near downtown Los Angeles, to wait out the vote count. Already high spirits rose with the favorable totals. In South Dakota, he won 50% of the vote, v. 30% for a slate favorable to Native Son Hubert Humphrey and 20% for Eugene McCarthy; then, in the far more crucial California contest, it was 46% for Kennedy, 42% for McCarthy and 12% for an uncommitted delegate group. The two victories gave Kennedy 198 precious delegate votes. Plans were being made for the campaign's next stages in New York and other...
...money to buy more planes. The Lebanese government cooperated by establishing a free-trade zone at the city's international airport, where goods could be warehoused or even partially processed. Business has consistently increased ever since, and the one-room office has given way to magnificent quarters downtown, where Abu-Haidar arrives at 8 each morning after a two-hour gallop on horseback outside the city...
Washington remains fearful that, at some point, the poor will really get out of hand. Abernathy did nothing to ease those fears when he told a campsite crowd: "We're going to raise hell downtown." In a more elegant setting, he told a group of business executives in the ballroom of Washington's Shoreham Hotel essentially the same thing: "It is suicidal for any nation to develop a people who do not feel they have a stake in that society. In due course that people will rise up and destroy that nation, even though they may destroy themselves...
...mayor quickly let it be known that change would continue-with a difference. All the renewal projects started by Collins would be completed, but the emphasis in future would be shifted from big downtown building schemes to less visible, but no less important, housing and neighborhood-improvement programs. As proof of his efforts, he announced this month that he had persuaded Boston banks, insurance companies and industries to invest $56 million in depressed neighborhoods. Some $50 million will be in loans to finance rehabilitation and construction of low-income housing units, while the remaining $6,000,000 will be seed...
...strong issue, the opposition Progressive Labor Party resorted to racism, campaigning on a platform of independence from white Britain, limits on white immigration, and fiery attacks on the white United Bermudians. Last month, pre-election tensions and some bitter P.L.P. speeches had set off an ugly race riot in downtown Hamilton. It caused $1,000,000 in damage and forced the British Governor, Lord Martonmere, to impose a curfew and declare a state of emergency. That, clearly, was not the image most Bermudians had of themselves or wanted for their island, whose principal industry is tourism for contented tourists...