Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lights in the bars on Tu Do Street in downtown Saigon gleam through the moist monsoon night until the capital's 11 p.m. curfew. But a scant ten miles away on Saigon's rural edges, the huts grow dark with the dusk. Lights are as likely to attract a Viet Cong bullet as a mosquito. Their backs to the glow from the city, South Vietnamese troops and their U.S. advisers settle back for a long night of watching-and, above all, listening. For the perimeter surrounding the 400 square miles of Gia Dinh province, which includes Saigon...
Still unsatisfied, Hué's big-men-on-campus called a mass meeting in a downtown cinema, attacked the milder draft law as a government conspiracy to "regiment" the intellectuals. They also sent a delegation to line up the students at the University of Saigon. Saigon would not line up. One reason: the city seems tired of marches, demonstrations and coups. Another is that many students who might otherwise be plotting to issue manifestoes are busy with more wholesome activities...
While still in his early teens, Claude Brown was the coolest of Harlem cats: smoker of pot, snuffer of cocaine, graduate of two reform schools, expert in the arts of bebopping (gang warfare), Murphying (a form of pimping), jugging (fornication) and stinging (armed robbery). Then Brown moved downtown, found a square job, took up the jazz piano and earned a high school diploma attending classes at night. This autobiography is Brown's testament, not to his redemption but to his misspent youth. Nowhere does he explain what inner strength rescued him from himself; the reader must consult the dust...
...disengagement was even more pronounced in the republic's second city, Santiago (pop. 75,000). There, last week, the movie houses were packed, and a chic fashion show drew a capacity crowd. Well-stocked shops were doing a bustling business, Rotarians held their regular dinner at the downtown Hotel Mercedes, the local civic band played its customary Sunday-afternoon concert in the park, and the binational Dominican-American Center held its usual graduation ceremony for the students who had been learning English...
...year, the Council recently asked the National Assembly to authorize another $94 million in new currency. Last week the Council had to settle for only $28 million-"barely enough," snorted Finance Minister Daniel H. Martins, "to cover our needs until September." Many Uruguayans agreed. University students demonstrated angrily in downtown Montevideo, and thousands of government employees staged a series of brief protest strikes. Uruguay's immediate object in sending its eight-man mission north is to get $56 million in U.S. commercial debts rescheduled and to arrange for additional loans. The country's past record has made Washington...