Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Andrew A. Whatley Jr., 21 and white, who had enlisted in the Marine Corps only two days before, was on his way home from his job as a drive-in movie projectionist. He stopped near a crowd, including some acquaintances, on a downtown street close to the Sumter County Courthouse. There, 250 Negroes were holding an all-night "vigil," demanding the unconditional release of four Negro women jailed on a charge of "blocking the entrance to a polling place" when they tried to vote in a line reserved for white women...
...winter rain slanted coldly down into the crowds, but not enough to dampen the homecoming. Nearly 500,000 cheering chilenos lined the nine-mile route from Los Cerrillos airport into downtown Santiago, waving their red, white and blue colors and chanting "Frei-Frei! Chile-Chile!" Smiling, tearful with gratitude, President Eduardo Frei was home after a 22-day goodwill tour through Italy, France, England and West Germany...
First Martyr. Two nights later, some 4,000 young followers of Papandreou carried his cause to the Parliament building in downtown Athens. Cordons of police warned them back, but they pressed on. Suddenly the police lobbed tear gas grenades and turned fire hoses on them, then waded in with truncheons. In the push to retreat, bodies tangled and fell. When the curtain of tear gas lifted, Stadium Street was strewn with stunned demonstrators and tourists, broken glass, placards, clothing and hundreds of odd shoes. One student, Sotirios Petroulas, 25, suffocated, and George Papandreou had his first martyr...
...Kansas for more than 40 years (one brother controls the City National Bank & Trust of Kansas City, the other the huge Kemper Investment Co. and a host of smaller banks), himself a bank president at 31, responsible for much of Kansas City's road building, slum clearance and downtown business renewal; by his own hand (pistol), after suffering from cancer for twelve years; in Kansas City...
...Quito and 170 miles away in the main port of Guayaquil, thousands of high school and university students, representing a wide swath of political orientation, poured into downtown streets, slinging rocks and chanting "Abajo la dictadura!" and "Viva la constitución!" Army troops and marines moved in with tear gas and clubs, arresting scores of demonstrators. Sixteen political leaders were rounded up and deported, and in Guayaquil, where two high school students were killed by stray bullets, the junta declared martial...