Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employee General Electric plant in the county have threatened a walkout on the opening day of school to protest busing. Several Ku Klux Klan meetings have been held to denounce desegregation, and a cross was burned in a field near Fairdale. The Klan also plans a demonstration in downtown Louisville on the first day of school...
...there are several other potential trouble spots round the nation. In Indianapolis, whose school system is 42% black, a federal appeals court last week stayed a lower court's ruling that would have required eight suburban school districts to accept enough black pupils from downtown to increase their black enrollment to 15%; the stay order is expected to be appealed. In Louisville, a federal court recently ruled that 22,600 students must be bused to bring the newly merged county and city school systems, now 5% and 53% black respectively, into racial balance. In Philadelphia's school system...
...million King County Stadium next year "in time for the baseball season"-even though Seattle does not as yet have a dome-town baseball team. The most controversial of all is the 27-story-high Superdome, which resembles a giant flying saucer set down on 52 acres of downtown New Orleans. Since 1966, when construction was approved by the Louisiana legislature, the cost of the dome has ballooned from $35 million to $163 million-about 15 times the price of Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase...
Surprise and Grace. Aalto's downtown architecture is as comfortable with city life as his freestanding works are with nature. There are half a dozen recent Aalto buildings in central Helsinki that seem as austere and reserved as the surrounding streetscape - until one notices the little surprises and grace notes. On one shaded facade of an Aalto-designed bookstore, for example, the architect framed every window with white marble to give the cheery illusion of more light than actually exists. His U-shaped headquarters for the Enso Gutzeit paper company steps down to a startling courtyard between its wings...
...reason Finley keeps a tight grip on the cash is that the A's do not produce much profit. Attendance at modern Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum (capacity: 50,000), a few minutes' drive from downtown Oakland, averages only 13,000 per game. Among the reasons: cold, foggy evenings, competition from the San Francisco Giants across the Bay, and Finley's own money-saving cutbacks on promotion. The result last year was a modest profit of $350,000. Much of that came from TV revenue plus play-off and World Series income...