Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...zealous regulators of business not to use?or misuse?antitrust laws and other regulations to block social action. Last month the Securities and Exchange Commission ordered Michigan Consolidated Gas to abandon its housing projects. A subsidiary had built low-rent town houses in the Detroit ghetto and downtown apartments for the elderly and planned three more projects in other Michigan cities. The SEC acknowledged the "meritorious" nature of the program, but contended that it was the sort of outside activity forbidden by the Public Utility Holding Company Act. The Detroit News acidly pointed out that the act was supposed...
...claims and served as go-between for a campaign contribution. Encouraged by Long to make campaign contributions to "decent candidates and incumbents," Michigan Oilman and Bank Director Harold McClure, a Republican national committeeman, wrote out a check payable to cash and left it at the desk of a downtown Washington hotel. It was picked up by Hunter and eventually found its way to Democrat Brewster's campaign coffers...
Last fall the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence painted an eerie picture of the urban future: downtown areas deserted after dark save for police patrols, apartment buildings ringed by private guards, whole cities terrified of strangers and infused with a fortress mentality. From Baltimore to Los Angeles, that future is closer at hand than anyone imagined. Banks and department stores are building inside parking garages to reduce muggings of nighttime workers. Downtown restaurants and theaters are closing early for lack of business. Vigilante groups and private security agencies are flourishing. Half the nation's 60 million...
...Beatles started it, the hippies spread it, and now long hair and beards are beginning to make it way downtown in Straight City. John Bal, a 24-year-old Manhattan patrolman, wears three commendations for heroism on his blue uniform-and brown hair that falls over the collar of his shirt. Bal's beat is now Central Park's Bethesda Fountain, where the kids in beads and tie-dyed jeans find him groovy. His superiors do not agree; last week he spent over two hours before a departmental hearing. "I like being a cop," Bal says...
...campus is two floors of an old federal office building in downtown Manhattan. Most of the 142 students are poor black or Puerto Rican women with children. All are over 21, and some are in their 50s. Only half finished high school; half are on welfare when they matriculate. Few U.S. colleges would accept or could afford such students. Yet the tuition-free College for Human Services pays them $2.10 an hour to swallow a massive dose of social sciences and earn a two-year Associate in Arts degree that is recognized anywhere in the country. The result may well...