Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King: A Filmed Record . . . Montgomery to Memphis raised about $3,500,000 to continue the late Dr. Martin Luther King's civil rights and antipoverty campaigns. The film drew more than 700,000 patrons at theaters in the U.S. and abroad. Among them, at the Fox Theater in downtown Atlanta, were Mrs. Coretta King and her four children: Yolanda, 15, Martin, 12, Bernice, 7, and Dexter, 9, who shows an unmistakable resemblance to his father...
...week before the film was to have its world premiere in New York and Crowley gave the impression that he was running a little scared. As we walked with the film's press agent into a large Cadillac limousine waiting outside the MGM Screening Room in downtown Boston, he was silent. It wasn't until we were seated in the living room of his enormous Ritz-Carlton suite and room service had provided a supply of drinks that he opened...
...rallying to the cause. L.A. Investment Banker Neil Kneitel last week founded SMACK (Society of Males who Appreciate Cute Knees) to circulate POOFF petitions in the city's downtown area. "There isn't anything but smog and beer cans around here," Kneitel explains, "and when we get out of the board rooms and off the phones to go out to lunch, we want to see all those lovely miniskirted girls." Another male group, also called POOFF (this time, for Professional Oglers Of Female Figures), has been formed by what its founder, James Knight, describes as "a group...
...professionals themselves. A physician gives the course in health services. A printer teaches printing, a jeweler gem cutting, an art historian a course in art history. And all of the professionals volunteer their services. As a result, the school's catalogue bulges with some 250 offerings. Philadelphias downtown area has literally become the school's campus, with students making their way from class to class by bus, subway or on foot...
...land and take off is a pallid pastime at Orly. There is a game room equipped with five bowling alleys, a pool table, pinball machines, and two dozen miniature athletic games. There is also a cinema, which offers patrons first-run movies at about half the cost charged by downtown Paris theaters; as an extra service, anyone can check in with a hostess upon entering the cinema and she will call him out when the aircraft arrives. Added attractions include an art gallery, a supermarket, a photo shop that makes instant poster-size enlargements, two hairdressing salons, three post offices...