Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boys Town is land rich too. Its campus is on 1,300 acres, now estimated to be worth $8,000,000. Near by it owns another 120 acres, plus an office building in downtown Omaha; in Iowa it owns a summer camp; in Wyoming some ranch land. Boys Town ended 1970 with total assets of roughly $192 million. If it were an industrial corporation, these assets would rank it 372 on FORTUNE'S list...
...tourists come off the plane and shoot around Los Angeles like camphor boats in a bathtub, trying to locate the downtown so that they can taste the drama of the big city, just the way they would back in Cleveland or Chicago or New York. At dusk they position themselves in the shadow of the city's tallest, busiest building and are simultaneously bee-swarmed by the swish of traffic, smell of bagels, whistles of cops and honking of cabs while they wait to feel the electricity of the place coming right through their shoe soles from the neon...
...Griffith Park in the center of L.A. any warm evening now, park on a cliff edge and see the city dying. The smog has a topography all its own these days, massive chocolate mountains of it below you to the east, a permanent black tumor over Hollywood and the downtown area seeping in channels through the passes out into the Valley and on into the Mojave Desert; to the west, over West L.A., Inglewood and Santa Monica, the smog is unexplainably green, and you realize that you are surrounded by a rainbow of smog, all of it a part...
...political prisoners. But the initiative stirred little response from either the Stormont or Westminster government, leading one I.R.A. leader to declare: "It's now total war." The day after the truce ended, a 200-lb. gelignite bomb shattered windows and tore the roofs off several buildings in downtown Belfast. Another I.R.A. explosive, left in a parked car, killed two British Army specialists who were trying to dismantle...
...middle management: "There are too many chains of command in the city. The borough office is where orders should come from, not from downtown. You just can't take a man out of Harvard University, Princeton or Yale, and put him in sanitation--you have to come up through the ranks...