Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic Governor Harold Hughes told him: "This is the greatest reception in the history of Iowa." He attracted 70,000 in Peoria, Ill., and Democratic Senator Paul Douglas said that Lyndon's were "the largest crowds I've ever seen in central Illinois." Some 250,000 jammed downtown Louisville for his motorcade, 85,000 shouldered their way into Nashville's War Memorial Square, 40,000 assembled in Indianapolis...
...crowd was thick at the triangular Dealey Plaza, on the western end of downtown Dallas. There the motorcade slowed down to turn right into Houston Street for one block; then it turned left onto Elm?and, traveling at precisely 11.2 m.p.h., headed down a slight slope past the seven-story, orange brick headquarters of the Texas School Book Depository Co., a private firm that distributes textbooks. Inside the Lincoln, Mrs. Connally turned and smiled: "Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you." Replied Kennedy, smiling: "That is very obvious...
Then, over crowd-lined streets, he headed downtown for conferences with local Congress Party leaders, after which he appeared on the Maidan, a big, grassy plain in the heart of Calcutta, to give a crowd of 350,000 an opportunity for darshana - a sort of blessed contact through sight - and, more important, a major political speech plugging his own new brand of neutralism for India...
Masters & Men. The tone was set at the first stop in Caracas, Venezuela. Stepping from his French-made Caravelle jetliner, boarded in Guadeloupe after his crossing in a Boeing 707, De Gaulle shook hands with President Raul Leoni and was whisked into downtown Caracas. Some 60,000 people packed the sidewalks, holding small French and Venezuelan flags as De Gaulle stood nodding and smiling, acknowledging the vivas. Taking no chances of an untoward incident, either by Venezuela's pro-Communist terrorists or the handful of vengeful French exiles in Latin America, the government posted 20,000 troops, police...
...Back to Downtown. Macy's expansion, which has doubled its stores and sales in ten years, is far from over. Within the next four years ten more stores will be added in such places as Topeka, Kans., Stockton, Calif., Livingston, N.J., and Queens, N.Y., where Macy's is building a circular store with parking ramps along the outside. More significantly, the firm is again moving into downtown areas (for example, in New Haven and Sacramento), a locale that Macy's and other retailers downgraded in the postwar rush to build branches in the suburbs...