Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once an agreement is made, the parole board releases the prisoner to the halfway house (on the seventh floor of the downtown Minneapolis Y.M.C.A). Counselors help find a job, and initially there is an 11 p.m. curfew. Group therapy sessions twice a week continue for the first six months. Though the debt is sometimes quickly paid off, the inmates must stay in the program until they are fully released from parole...
...boom began in the late '60s with the decline of the inner cities and the rising fear of crime. In the Washington, D.C., area, notes Actor Walt Lachman, a dozen suburban restaurant-theaters sprang up after the riots of 1968. "The white middle-class dollar was not coming downtown after that," says Lachman, "and the theater needs that suburban dollar to survive...
...long looked for some characteristic to distinguish it from San Francisco across the bay, Oakland has been slow to seize on the distinction of the A's. Attendance at games in the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, a modern ballpark situated only a few minutes' drive from downtown Oakland (pop. 361,561), averages a meager 6,400 per game. And many of the fans who do show up come from communities half a day's drive away. Annoyed by the lack of support, the A's call their empty stadium "the mausoleum...
...clear of all of baseball when he wishes. In fact, his life is so busy off the field that he says, only half in jest, "I play baseball as a sideline." A typical day off begins in midmorning when Jackson climbs out of bed in his penthouse apartment overlooking downtown Oakland. (Later this year he will move into an $85,000 condominium in the Berkeley Hills.) Once he has selected the day's outfit from three oversized closets that contain 100 shirts and pairs of pants, twelve leather jackets ("I've got every color") and a dozen hats...
Eastern Sprints Champ Radcliffe will be sending both an eight and a four to the National Women's Rowing Association Championships, to be held on Lake Merrit in downtown Oakland, Calif., on the weekend of June...