Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guff. The upheavals in San Francisco and St. Louis were both kindled by the same spark: the shooting of a Negro by white police. In St. Louis, youthful Negroes on the western edges of the downtown district demonstrated for six nights after an armed-robbery suspect was shot to death, breaking the windows of autos and buildings, pitching stones and bottles at policemen, stoning firemen who replied to false alarms-and all the while shouting "Black power...
...home in time for dinner. He had turned down a $750,000 congressional appropriation for an official residence as unseemly in view of Viet Nam, so finally last week, "with the advice and counsel" of Wife Muriel, Hubert splurged $89,000 on a six-room co-op apartment in downtown Washington. "We just weren't able to see enough of each other," beamed Humphrey, obviously tickled at the mere nine-minute drive from his Capitol office...
...coat, eats in the company cafeteria with subordinates who affectionately call him Oyaji (Pop). "When I am wearing the white coat," says Honda, "I'm just one of the employees." Although Honda retains a controlling 7% of the company's stock, his only contact with the downtown Tokyo office is a monthly telephone conversation with Fujisawa, "to decide policy" that usually lasts five minutes. Although they have worked closely together for 19 years, the two executives rarely relax with one another outside the office. Honda likes to spend his spare time golfing, while Fujisawa is an enthusiastic bowler...
...Negroes who had been in contact with downtown businessmen and city officials, the whites had finally come through. True, one of the Negroes commented later, "It just showed what we'd been saying all along: Once the white folks made up their minds that we would have Negro policemen, we'd have it." But many of the wealthier Negroes had talked at one time or another about what one called the "nagging thought in my mind that not enough people have gone down to take that exam." There was the feeling that they, as self-styled Negro leaders, were...
There are many signs that by going into the anti-poverty business, the government has begun to generate thousands of dissatisfied customers who will soon know the ropes as well as the downtown bureaucrats. A welfare case worker described the change: "People are beginning to act as if help from the government is a right instead of a privilege. They know what they are entitled to." Early in August, welfare recipients from New York and other large cities proved the point by holding a convention in Chicago to plan strategy for demanding their rights...