Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responsible for draining money out of Harlem. But he has his own view of how Harlemites can reposess and increase the wealth of their community. Every dollar which goes into the pocket of a white Harlem businessman and is spent or deposited in a bank in the Bronx or "downtown" is a dollar which does not get invested in Harlem. If businessmen and individuals can be persuaded to deposit their money at Freedom National and other Harlem banks, the banks will be able to make loans to Negroes to purchase and improve homes and businesses. Soliciting accounts is therefore justified...
...paid up to $100 apiece to witness: a stroll across the water in a specially constructed tank in Bombay. While movie cameras whirred, Rao stepped off the edge-and sank like a stone to the bottom. The spectators felt they'd been soaked themselves. Rao retreated to a downtown office building, where he began returning rupees to all the rubes who came forward...
...Chic Bell's bearded touring musicians. The colony's picturesque Benton Harbor amusement park once attracted 200,000 visitors a year, now draws fewer than 30,000. So depleted are the ranks that outsiders have to be hired to operate the shabby House of David Hotel in downtown Benton Harbor. Sighs pigtailed Tom Dewhirst, 58, head of the Benton Harbor Chamber of Commerce: "Nothing new has happened around here in 30 years...
...downtown Dacca, jittery shopkeepers clanked their corrugated front doors shut and raced for home. Trains were derailed, cars were stoned and burned, tires were slashed. In one howling clash with police, four rioters were killed. At Narayanganj, 15 miles south of Dacca, rioters armed with shotguns stormed a police station, and seven more were gunned down. In Tejgaon, some 20,000 swarmed angrily into the streets, looking for trouble...
Hedged & Soaring. The new hotel is the latest and liveliest addition to Century City, Alcoa's huge, 180-acre project on the edge of Beverly Hills and 14 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The land-which, as 20th Century-Fox's back lot, used to bristle with cowboys and Indians, and before that was Tom Mix's ranch-cost $43 million. So far, Alcoa has spent an additional $160 million for the hotel, two 13-story office buildings, a big shopping center, and a pair of I. M. Pei-designed apartment towers, billed as "Your prestige...