Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, whose popularity had eroded in the later years of Sato's 7½-year regime. Sato favored Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, 67, for party president and Premier, and the L.D.P.'s brusque rejection of his protege at a convention in downtown Tokyo's big Hibiya Hall last week was the final shokku. Sato nearly wept as Fukuda was trounced by the upstart millionaire, 282 to 190, in a second-ballot runoff...
...week after the Susquehanna had breached the dikes and roared through Wilkes-Barre, the waters receded from the downtown area enough to permit people to re-enter the city and begin the clean-up. Those who were able to return to their homes and businesses found a scene of devastation unlike anything Americans--unfazed by two World Wars--are accustomed...
Steel bridges were reduced to twisted ruins as if shelled by flocks of F-111's. Empty hulks with blackened windows remained where entire blocks of the downtown area had been burned out. National Guardsmen in muddy Jeeps patrolled the streets and MP's directed traffic through intersections choked with mud. Most grotesquely, twisted and mangled mannequins lying outside shattered store windows grimly suggested the carnage of a beseiged city...
...playwright seems to be an endangered species, Papp is discovering that the authors are in fact there, but that eager, adventurous producers are not. "There are more new plays worthy of production than can be produced in the U.S.," he asserts. "I've got five theaters [in the downtown complex], and I don't have enough space to do the plays I could do in a season here." During this season he has been responsible for eleven new productions; because of his reputation, he is receiving 40 to 50 fresh scripts a week...
AMID THIS ATMOSPHERE of anticipation, the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ), a Cambridge-based antiwar collective, called an April 19 antiwar march slated to shut down a military recruiting office in downtown Boston. After several hundred demonstrators risked arrest for about one-half hours by sitting in front of the Tremont St. office, a PCPJ spokesman unexpectedly announced that the march would proceed to a "military-linked target" somewhere in the Cambridge area. The target's identity (it was the CFIA) and what would occur once the marchers reached it were kept secret, the spokesman explained...