Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suburban Wilton, Conn., one white lad recently startled a friend with an unusual expression of envy. "Boy, are you lucky! You live in a place with elevators, and you can walk to the candy store any time you want to." The surprised friend was a street-wise black from downtown Bridgeport. "That's all right," the black youngster answered. "You got some nice things here...
...twelve-mile circle around Detroit and cut it into five to eight zones shaped like slices of a pie. The narrow end of each wedge would be in the center city. Some suburbanites are worried that their children might be bused as far as 16 miles to a downtown school. The answer of one city administrator is that "after all, suburbanites with inner-city jobs drive this far every day and they don't think anything about it." Conceding that such distances would be onerous for children, however, officials are also considering a cross-busing plan between existing school districts...
Tayloe is one of the two white cheerleaders (out of a squad of twelve) at John F. Kennedy High School, and her grades have risen since she arrived. Anne and Woody have specifically asked to ride the school bus (there is no school bus stop convenient to the downtown mansion for Tayloe and none at all for Dwight). As for five-year-old Dwight, "I don't think he knows the difference between black and white," Holton says. "Isn't that great...
...Traveler, and the Record American, are not scrapping. But two small weeklies that feature radical politics, rock-music and movie reviews, plus gamy classified ads, are presently engaged in a fierce-and profitable-battle for readers and revenues. Moreover, their hard-digging reporting is beginning to stir up the downtown dailies as well...
...lost little time in starting toward that goal. In August the company was named manager of a Transportation Department-sponsored project that will provide rapid transit along a 3.5-mile stretch of traffic-clogged roadway in Morgantown, W. Va., connecting the three campuses of West Virginia University and the downtown area. Boeing and subcontractors will build the track line and about 85 electrically powered, computer-operated cars. Commuters will be able to signal the vehicles, which carry 17 passengers and run at speeds up to 30 m.p.h., to stop by pushing buttons located inside the cars and at each terminal...