Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...department store has been offering creations bearing such labels as Pucci, Dior and Halston marked down by 50% or more. J.C. Penney near Philadelphia and Target Stores in Minneapolis slashed prices of children's toys by 20%. For the first time in its history, Rich's in downtown Atlanta opened on Sunday afternoons; several Macy's stores around New York decided to keep their doors open until...
Another senseless round of terror and counterterror shook the Middle East last week. It began last Tuesday morning when salvos of 3.5-in. rockets crashed into buildings that housed offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in downtown Beirut. The main P.L.O. headquarters for Lebanon, on the wide, busy boulevard called the Corniche Mazraa, was wrecked, as was the P.L.O. research center near the Rue Sadat. The office responsible for coordinating al-Fatah's covert terrorist activities inside Israel narrowly escaped heavy damage when the four rockets that had obviously been aimed at it landed instead on a nearby empty...
...commission has come up with a variety of imaginative answers. It has sent town criers in colonial garb through downtown streets to call out the jackpot numbers. A cowboy has attached the winning figures to his saddle and galloped around a central square shouting...
Ford held his Thursday press conference at the downtown ice cream parlor, the "unofficial town hall" of Searsport, Hollander said. "It's the best thing that ever happened to Searsport," one citizen said...
...HITLER'S ARMY landed in Boston Harbor Friday night, it could hardly have been more devastating than the performance Patti Labelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash, otherwise knowns as "Labelle," dropped on downtown Boston's Orpheum Theater that evening. Voluminous plumes, vibrant booties and large doses of pure, rock-bottomed funk held the packed house spellbound for a solid two hours...