Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been here before; on grade school field trips to the Museum of Science and Industry, to visit Northwestern in my senior year in high school, to spend a week in the downtown YMCA during the Democratic National Convention in 1968, and now a year later for the opening of the Chicago conspiracy trial and the Weatherman Days of Rage. "Nobody in that courtroom was the same person he had been thirteen months before. Nobody had the same intentions," Tony Lukas writes in his new book Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Certainly not myself, who with a voyeuristic journalistic curiosity...
Warsaw is still dominated by the hideous 38-story Palace of Culture, Russia's gift to Poland, but its Stalinist style has become an empty symbol. Downtown Warsaw, with its shiny new glass-and-steel buildings and wide sidewalks, exudes freshness and openness. The women of the major cities are completely attuned to Western fashion; Warsaw's Moda Polska fashion house sends its designers to Paris and London showings. Despite the advent of the midi, the mini is still in vogue. Even Warsaw policewomen wear minis, serving as reminders that the Polish leg can be as well turned...
...Royal Inns, they cannot avoid getting more. Gagosian places his newest motels in the middle of downtown areas -often miles from the main highways, but convenient to theaters and stores. Behind gold-and-white facades are elegantly designed rooms. In addition to free color TV and vibrating bed, Royal Inn rooms typically have white satin bedspreads, deep-pile carpeting, antique-white furniture and a full wall-size mural. Some rooms are equipped with bars, refrigerators and log-burning fireplaces. All Royal Inns have swimming pools, sauna baths and therapy pools at no extra charge. Some, like the year-old Royal...
...shooting came in the wake of four days of racial conflict in Orangeburg, which erupted after students from the all black college attempted to integrate a downtown bowling alley...
...adjournment rush at the end of Congress's lame-duck session. If the S.I.P.C. bill fails and the trouble continues, Wall Street will face a terrifying unknown: What would be the consequences of the failure of a major house whose customers are not protected by anyone in either downtown Manhattan or Washington...