Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More interesting TV pictures may originate outside the hall. To re-create a bit of the Old West for out-of-towners, Local Rancher John Ball plans to hold a cattle drive along the Trinity River, ending up less than a mile from downtown every morning of the convention. Some 150 longhorns and about a dozen cowboys will take part in the four-mile outings...
...keep protesters out of rock-throwing range, the city has encircled the downtown convention center with a controversial $65,000, 6-ft.-high hurricane fence, creating a buffer zone at least 350 ft. wide. The Dallas police department has canceled vacations for its 2,075 officers, each of whom has received special training in crowd control and explosives detection. Says Police Spokesman Ed Spencer: "We've tried to prepare for just about any eventuality...
Contrary to the direst forecasts of terminal gridlock and rampaging tourism, Los Angeles has seldom seemed so vacant or livable since freeways were invented. A strange term, "freeflow conditions," has been revived, and "Black Friday," the first day all the downtown venues were in session at once, has been survived. The most worrisome congestion may be in the sky, where security men, sheiks and chairmen of the board are churning around in helicopter jams. "All of the talk about smog and heat and traffic scared a lot of people away," said Charles O'Connell, the Olympic traffic-operations chief...
Those who have not been downtown recently will find even it has been spruced up. At the Midnight Mission on Los Angeles Street, the stubbly men are listing with great formality. A rental shop donated about 200 out-of-fashion tuxedos to the image of the city. If nothing else, foreign visitors must concede, no where in the world are the bums better dressed...
This is not the first tune the 127-year-old Continental has been bailed out by the Federal Government. In 1934 the Reconstruction Finance Corp. rescued Continental after a series of bad Depression loans. Continental later regained prosperity and helped turn Chicago's downtown financial district on LaSalle Street into the futures-and commodities-trading capital of the world. But trouble returned as a result of the bank's go-go lending during the 1970s. Under former Chairman Roger Anderson, who was eased out last February, Continental lent freely for oil and gas drilling, condominium development and Latin...