Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pontiac, Mich., a lunch-bucket industrial suburb 25 miles northwest of Detroit, seems an unlikely host for Super Bowl XVI. It is the first time in the history of the sports event that the game will move outside the Sunbelt. Last week Pontiac's decaying downtown was finishing up a hasty facelift. This overnight assemblage of restaurants, lounges and shops-some in abandoned buildings-bears the name Bourbon Street North. More than cosmetics, however, may be needed to equal the blowsy je ne sais quoi of New Orleans, site of the last Super Sunday. Super Bowl, after...
...however, may be on Pontiac. The 2,000 members of the press will stay in suburban Dearborn, 30 miles from the dome and Bourbon Street North; concerts by Frank Sinatra, Motor City-born Diana Ross and Rocker Rod Stewart in the pregame week are to be held in downtown Detroit; 1,200 buses will cart fans from outlying locations to and quickly from the game. Even the teams will not stay in Pontiac; both are quartered in other suburbs...
...Saturday, about 100 local anti-war activists protested Reagan's decision to abandon his opposition to registration and continue the program by marching on Washington St. in downtown Boston...
...Poles who jammed into St. John's Cathedral in downtown Warsaw last week had come to celebrate the feast of the Epiphany. What they witnessed, along with the Mass, was one of the most courageous displays of free speech since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the spiritual leader of Poland's 33 million Roman Catholics, mounted the carved oak pulpit to attack the excesses of General Wojciech Jaruzelski's military regime...
...immediate cause of Mugabe's crackdown was the explosion on Dec. 18 that ripped through the downtown Salisbury headquarters of his ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-P.F.). Incredibly, no one in the office building was killed by the bomb, but seven bystanders died, and some 120 people were injured...