Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Williams had the hot hand in the first half as she fired in 14 of her 16 points in the early going. Williams popped in most of her two-pointers on jump shots from downtown...
Everyone on the street calls Cooper the "key man" because he carries a great many around on a large ring and because he seems to be at the very center of all the action. His is, in any case, a poor fiefdom, a small hunk of downtown territory in an unnamed city that is clearly Los Angeles. Cooper holds court in bars, keeps a small, dusty office in which even the sunlight is encrusted. He is a fixer and a mover: he puts up bail bond, regulates the steady flow of petty crime in the neighborhood. Cooper also has eyes...
...force. The whole force walked off the job after the government offered a wage increase of $8 a month instead of the $40 that the cops had asked for. Most units returned to work when ordered to do so, but the 1,200-man radio-patrol force based in downtown Lima held out. The police locked themselves inside the Victoria barracks and refused to leave. Instead of taking the sensible precaution of sending soldiers to protect the city from unrest, Velasco issued ultimatum after ultimatum to the strikers. Then he sent in tanks-Soviet-built T-55 models that smashed...
WINDING UP Park Drive, the march crosses the Fens and heads into downtown Boston via Boylston Street. The leafleteers scour the sidewalks and pizza parlors, distributing their literature. A little blond boy of about four chants in his mother's arms, "Who's got the money? Who makes the rules? Kids can't learn in racist schools." Suddenly the march halts. It creeps forward. There is a spasmodic jerk back. A spray of placards spumes to the pavement. All is quiet. Then it erupts...
...psychiatric facility for observation and treatment. The reason was the boy's homosexual involvement with an older man. After a six-month stay, Joseph Jr. returned home for a month, then ran away. Last Aug. 8, his body was found under the rubble of a collapsed building in downtown Philadelphia. That also was reported in the local press. Police still do not know the cause of the boy's death, but one month before it occurred, Kallinger had taken out life insurance policies on two of his sons. Joseph Jr.'s policies called for a total award...