Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over Spain, the word was sí. FRANCO SÍ proclaimed a sign that covered four stories of a skyscraper in downtown Madrid. VOTE SÍ FOR LA PAZ echoed posters on the walls and lampposts of every Spanish town. Spanish movie stars filmed television spots to prove that they wanted to sí as well as be seen, and flamenco dancers hammered out special sí seguidillas with their heels. To be sure that no one missed the message, billboards from Cádiz to Catalonia displayed a silky señorita in an overstuffed sweater, urging motorists...
While a special committee was preparing to study the demands, young Communist students staged two days of mild downtown demonstrations. Then full-scale street riots suddenly erupted on Dec. 3. Chanting "Kill the Portuguese devils!", some 3,000 Red Guard-style demonstrators smashed store windows, tipped over every car in sight, pulled down statues, and sacked Macao's City Hall. The next day-early last week-5,000 took to the streets, and before order was restored eight were dead. At week's end De Carvalho had accepted the five demands and Macao was calm again, though...
...only official ever to hold that office four consecutive terms. Under his aegis, the city went through a renaissance. Slums were razed, expressways were built, steelmill smog was thinned out by tough anti-pollution laws, and the city's Golden Triangle-a symbol of enlightened urban renewal-rose downtown...
...Flanker Pete Gent of the Dallas Cowboys. "When I joined this club two years ago, nobody did anything but jeer at us. If there was a crowd waiting at the airport when we returned from a game, we figured they had ropes." To day, a huge electric sign in downtown Dallas proclaims, HOME OF THE COW BOYS - WORLD'S FASTEST TEAM, and in the Cotton Bowl last week 80,000 fans turned out to watch their heroes beat the Cleveland Browns 26-14 for their eighth victory of the season (against two losses, one tie) and take over first...
...actors and set up a theater on campus. Chancellor Franklin Murphy, a physician, explains the motivation: "What a nearby hospital means to a medical man, a theater means to a drama student." So good has this theater group become that next year it will move to Los Angeles' downtown Music Center as its permanent repertory company (and U.C.L.A. will start another group). Comparable umbilical links with professional theaters were established in succeeding years by the University of Minnesota and San Antonio's Trinity College. Michigan, Barnard, Brandeis, Stanford, Purdue, Denver and several others now have professional schools staffed...