Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until last year, the downtown district and the tax base of Lima, Ohio (pop. 55,000), were disappearing at approximately the same rate. The bus sys tem had broken down, the turreted old railway station was closed, and the streets were full of potholes...
Moyer has even bigger plans - a downtown renovation program that will include new federal and state buildings and a senior citizens' center as well. "People have hope here now," says the mayor, a hope all the healthier for be ing made of home-grown ingenuity...
Ambitious Plans. The demise of the Wheels is a case in point. Last spring Detroit seemed to be the perfect site for a new pro team. The N.F.L. Lions are abandoning downtown Tiger Stadium next fall for new quarters in Pontiac, 25 miles from Detroit, and fans were already saying, "Let the Pontiac Pussycats go." The Wheels rolled into town with ambitious plans; they drafted such top college stars as Tennessee State Defensive End Ed ("Too Tall") Jones (the N.F.L.'s first draft choice) and set out to hire John Merritt away from Tennessee State as head coach...
...defensive coordinator, David Brazil, who, one Wheel player reported, had coached his high school team to a 0-7 record. Worse still, the team could not use Tiger Stadium because the Lions held exclusive football rights there; the Wheels had to play in Ypsilanti, 35 miles from downtown. Finally, the public stock offering owners had counted on to raise capital fell through when the Wheels were declared too risky a venture to go public...
More than 500 supporters of busing marched from Copley Square through downtown Boston yesterday, chanting "No more Kerrigan, no more Hicks, no more racists' rocks and bricks," and "Stop the racist attacks against black schoolchildren...