Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening paper. Like many other metropolitans, it has had increasing trouble in distribution as its audience spreads farther into the suburbs. The News' answer: a $42 million modernization program that includes an automated printing plant 23 miles north of Detroit. It is plugged in electronically to editorial headquarters downtown...
...small side, and heavy bags under his eyes make him look tired. His gray-white hair, once blond, is short but disheveled, and his simple sports coat and sweater are more the dress of a recluse academic than a senior law partner with a 10-room office in downtown New York...
...route from the suburbs to Atlanta Stadium leads past downtown Atlanta and its new, skyscraping skyline. The stocky, black Equitable Building dominates the scene, its white lights blinking out "Equitable, Equitable, Equitable" for all Crusade-goers...
...rode to Legion Field that Saturday on a chartered bus, since no mortal could have braved the flood of football traffic that always took over downtown Birmingham on Auburn-Alabama day. Our fellow travellers were a wild assortment of banner-waving, horn-blowing, bourbon-swigging Alabama fans. Along the way, the men had cursing battles, sang obscene fight songs, and bet themselves into insolvency over the outcome of the game...
...Toronto to rampage through the town just before the game and rally the support troops. This practice dates back to 1948, when 250 boosters of the Calgary Stampeders chartered a 16-car Canadian Pacific train for the trip to Toronto, bringing with them 16 horses. The visitors rode through downtown hotel lobbies in a wild stampede. Eventually, the game itself will take place before a packed and spirited crowd of 36,000 at Canadian National Exhibition stadium...