Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...architecture, Peachtree Center is neat, competent and mostly bland. But as a boost for the center city, it has worked wonders. By zesty street designs-bright colors, flags, modern sculpture, trees and fountains-Portman created a pleasant environment that brought new life downtown. Other Atlanta developers have followed his lead. They, too, have built, not isolated towers, but large, coherent projects with hotels, apartments, shops, offices and sport facilities. Result: Atlanta has one of the healthiest downtowns...
...Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller, Dallas Developer Trammell Crow and the Prudential Investment Corp. to build Embarcadero Center, often called "Rockefeller Center West"-an 8.5-acre, $200 million office, apartment and hotel project. In Detroit, Henry Ford II called on Portman to save the city's dying downtown by designing the 32-acre, $200 million Renaissance Center...
...several years they have been a fixture of downtown Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in the old hard-coal country of northeastern Pennsylvania. They wear pins that say GET SMART, GET SAVED. Abstemious, straitlaced, pushy in their missionary piety, they work the streets, buttonholing teen-age passers-by with provocative zeal...
...only candidates who are against Communists," Packwood said Tuesday as he stood outside the aging Franklin Street Elementary School in downtown Manchester talking to voters on their way to the polls. He said it was the Supreme Court's decision banning mandatory prayer in public schools that opened the floodgates in America to surging, atheistic Communism...
...ward 11, across the Merrimac River from Manchester's downtown, there was a waiting line of about 100 voters, 45 minutes before the polls closed...