Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tree-shaded site overlooking the middle reach of Sydney harbor. "My last trip to the U.S. showed me for sure that we lead a good life here," he remarked one morning last week. "In Columbus," he said, "old friends were afraid to let their kids go downtown to a movie." At that moment his twelve-year-old daughter Klay was shopping alone in downtown Sydney. "They no longer seemed to know the answers to their problems," Stone continued. "Once, for every American problem, there was a solution. Not any more. In Columbus there's crime and fear of crime...
...that the lack of a public market for its stock had inhibited diversification of the investment portfolio of its profit-sharing trust, had complicated the estate planning of the controlling stockholders, and had foreclosed the company from obtaining loans to finance its growth, including a new Post plant in downtown Washington. In the past, the company had assumed an obligation to repurchase the stock it distributed to employees. The prospectus said that "over the past' three years such repurchases have, in the aggregate, imposed a substantial cash drain on the Company." The new shares will carry limited voting rights...
...field will catch on with other departments. Defense Secretary, Melvin Laird, for example, could spend the season at Khe Sanh, getting a sense of what his men are up against. Secretary of State, William Rogers, could summer in the Sinai, while Labor Secretary, James Hodgson, might spend August in downtown Detroit. A summer on Wall Street might hone Treasury Secretary, John Connally's mind. Commerce Secretary, Maurice Stans could work out of the Baltimore docks, and HEW Secretary, Elliot Richardson out of any slum of his choosing...
What I'm trying to say, the impression I'm trying to create, is one of total fear, absolute and utter paranoia. If you "looked suspicious" (and you know what that means) you could not leave the sanctuaries of the three downtown universities without fear of getting arrested. You could not walk down a street or drive a car without being stopped repeatedly, questioned and often arrested. And you could never go anywhere alone. If you did, if you had no witnesses around, you were risking a lot of pain. I remember driving around Washington Tuesday morning, feeling like...
...students-Carroll S. Dorgan '71, John M. Hosken '73, and Harrison-were charged with assault as they tried to enter the Department of Public Welfare in downtown Boston during the demonstration sponsored by the Progressive Labor Party...