Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wayne B. Williams, 23, was standing in an Atlanta phone booth one afternoon last week when FBI agents approached him and, he says, "insisted" he go downtown for questioning. As word of Williams' interrogation began to spread, many Atlantans expressed hope that the long search for a killer of many of the city's 28 young black victims might be over. Yet twelve hours later Williams, a former TV cameraman and part-time talent-booking agent, was released. Publicly, law enforcement officials said they did not have enough evidence to hold him. Privately, they insisted he was still...
...marriage produced two children, a boy and a girl, and then ended. Horne found her real happiness at the old Café Society Downtown in Greenwich Village, at that time "the one place in New York that had a mixed audience." With other performers, like Billy Daniels, Billie Holiday and Paul Robeson, she found the family life she had always wanted. Robeson was both father and teacher, and after the show was over, the two of them would often talk until dawn. "He'd tell me about black people, about my people, my grandmother," she says. "He was supplying...
...Louis suffered a major setback in 1979, when General Motors announced plans to close its 61 -year-old auto assembly plant downtown and build a new $500 million facility in St. Charles County, 35 miles west of St. Louis. The move will reportedly cost the city nearly 10% of its industrial tax base. Says GM Spokesman James Hughes: "We just didn't have the room we needed in the city, and we have a very willing county administration...
...downtown Shanghai, a standing-room-only congregation of 800 packs the handsome brick Church of Abundant Grace. After a resounding rendition in Chinese of the hymn Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, worshipers listen as Pastor Li Wentsai exhorts them to "abide in Jesus"continually, not just on Sundays. The church is one of five Protestant churches in Shanghai, and more than 100 nationwide, that have just been reopened...
Typically, Manfred Eicher, 35, the founder, manager and premier producer of ECM, will fly his musicians into a Norwegian studio nicknamed the Whale, right in the heart of downtown Oslo. The musicians start to work as soon as they shake off the jet lag. An album usually takes two days to record-a day for each side-with a third day reserved for mixing. Very businesslike, minimal distractions. Oslo is short on hotspots likely to divert attention from the matter at hand. For fun, the musicians trundle off to the Edvard Munch Museum...