Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kansas City (pop. 513,000) is spread out over 316 square miles. That spaciousness is one of its charms, but distances make it difficult for visitors without cars to inspect the place. Actually, like many Midwestern cities-except Chicago-Kansas City is two cities: downtown and elsewhere. The city is now laboring to restore the dreary 140sq. block downtown area, which is populated only during office hours and abandoned...
...city that Maurois was writing about is elsewhere, outside the downtown area. Kansas City has 118 miles of tree-lined parkways and gracious boulevards and 7,211 acres of public parks. Kansas Citians have a fetish for fountains; it is almost a gaucherie for a developer to erect a building without one outside. The latest is a $150,000 concrete and steel-alloy fountain in Blue Valley Park. Some of the loveliest are in the Spanish-style Country Club Plaza, an opulent shopping and residential complex; it was the nation's first shopping center when Developer J.C. Nichols built...
...injured in the worst racial violence in South Africa's history (TIME. June 28). On Wednesday, a crowd of 20,000 angry blacks, most of them students, gathered at dawn outside Soweto's Orlando Stadium, determined to march ten miles to police headquarters in downtown Johannesburg. Their goal: to demand the release of four student leaders arrested since the June violence...
Only a dozen homosexuals showed up for a scheduled mass love-in at a park in downtown Manhattan. There was not a policeman in sight to give a care. The once notorious Paul Krassner, a founder of the Youth International Party, sadly watched a crowd of 250 of his Yippies getting stoned in Central Park as a demonstration for the legalization of marijuana. Cops looked on with detached amusement. "People don't care if you smoke," groused Krassner. "It's become irrelevant...
...years I carefully followed Mondale's voting record and career as a senator. When he announced his decision not to seek the presidency in 1976 I was disappointed but respected his priorities. This past April, while visiting Minneapolis for a job interview, I saw him in the Leamington Hotel downtown. He was greeting florists on their way to a convention in one of the ballrooms. He was in the center of the hotel lobby, smiling, still chewing...