Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presence of a community of Negro scholars and students at Tuskegee Institute, founded in 1881 by Booker T. Washington. Last week Tuskegee's self-satisfied image received a mortal blow. One of Tuskegee Institute's 2,751 students, Freshman Sammy Younge, 21, was shot to death in downtown Tuskegee by a white service-station attendant...
...make his mark as an energetic civil rights organizer. He helped run a Negro boycott of local markets, led a group that attempted to integrate the municipal swimming pool and Tuskegee's all-white First Methodist Church. Last week, just before his death, he spent hours in the downtown Macon County Courthouse helping some 40 Negro would-be voters to register. That night, when he went to nearby Wilson's Standard Oil service station to buy gas and use the men's room, he got into an argument with Attendant Marvin Segrest, 67, with whom...
...Higgins, Chileans have paused in the day's occupation at noon to go home, dine on three courses and Riesling, and once upon a time, snooze it comfortably off before returning for another three hours of work in the late afternoon. In modern times, however, workers in downtown Santiago, Valparaiso and Concepción, many of whom live six or seven miles from their jobs, have spent most of their lunchtime stalled on buses in traffic jams. So when Frei's government, seeking to boost efficiency and save electricity, last year asked the University of Chile to make...
Buttressed by the poll, the government last week bravely decreed new 9 to 4:30 working hours, with only a 30-minute break for lunch, for government employees and large private corporations in the nation's ten biggest cities. Unfortunately, most downtown areas were woefully short of lunch counters or cafeterias to feed the hungry hordes, but most Chileans, for the present at least, seemed disposed to bring lunch in a paper bag, or wait in line. "It is rather expensive," moaned Jorge Soto, a government clerk who earns $53 a month. "I have...
...university rejected a pasture on the city's outskirts, fought for and got 106 downtown acres where once stood the Chicago slums that Al Capone's gang made infamous. Planned as a commuter college without dormitories, the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle sits in the inner city-as does the Sorbonne in Paris. Within view of the Loop, the campus actually occupies the area designated by City Planner Daniel ("Make no little plan") Burnham in 1909 as the site for Chicago's future civic center. It is no coincidence that the campus is the first ever...