Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tokyo, crowds gathered outside department-store display windows along the Ginza to watch live TV coverage from Peking. In Seoul, the summit glowed from sets in jampacked downtown teahouses. The presidential trip was the biggest news item in Rome since the Italian team made the finals of the 1970 World Cup soccer matches; in Uganda, it rivaled the excitement of Apollo 15. For Southeast Asia's overseas Chinese populations, the event held a special quality. A bank on Singapore's Collyer Quay sold out a supply of 500 special $4 commemorative coins in a matter of minutes; within...
...this year's World Championship of Pocket Billiards-a black-tie name for straight pool-seemed uncomfortable in their cummerbunds. There was something similarly uneasy about the championship setting; three neon-lit tables amid the faded splendor of the Great Lodge Hall in the Elks Building of downtown Los Angeles...
...state has accused Hosken of attacking two police officers and destroying a policeman's watch and pair of pants during a welfare demonstration in downtown Boston last May 7. The demonstration had been organized by the Progressive Labor Party (PL) to protest cutbacks in the Massachusetts Medicaid program...
Forced by the biggest snowstorm of the winter to spend four days in lovely, downtown Ithaca, N.Y., the Harvard swimming team almost suffered the added insult of losing to Cornell, the traditional doormat of the league, before pulling out a 58-55 win on Saturday...
...private line out for me -wouldn't break regulations. So I rented an office on Figueroa, near Seventh, where there was a line, and had a ticker-tape installed there ... I drove down there in the middle of the night and laid this whole thing from Figueroa in downtown Los Angeles along the trolley power line to my room at the Ambassador Hotel . . . But I got the terminals reversed, and this immediately showed up on the Western Union Board-a red light flashing-and so they sent over a couple of workmen to the Figueroa Street office that...