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Yalies are advised not to stroll around beautiful downtown New Haven after sunset. Too dangerous, apparently...
...everything from hot tamales to take-out sushi, and mini-shopping malls on every block make their mark on the plastic expanse of wide streets and sun-bronzed people. And when the sun descends over the pacific, the wild ones know exactly where to go. They hip-hop downtown--where pleasures-seekers and licentious groovers explode recklessly to the primal beats of the night. Tonight the scene is the old Park Plaza Hotel, where a French restauranteur is throwing his version of an all-or-nothing revelry of life...
...afternoon in early January, Captain Robert Woods, head of the Los Angeles police department's air-support squad, was monitoring a high-speed car chase from his downtown office. A taxi was speeding south from Bakersfield along Interstate 5, pursued by several highway-patrol cars. Suddenly, after following the chase for more than an hour, Woods looked out his window and could see where it had ended. Nearly a dozen helicopters were circling the area -- six of them from local TV stations, which had been broadcasting the chase live. "Enough is enough," Woods said to himself. "Next...
...goes according to plan -- a big "if" when it comes to new technology -- broadcast history will be made in a meeting room on Capitol Hill this week. A new kind of television signal will leave the Bethesda, Md., TV tower of WETA, a PBS affiliate, fly across downtown Washington, strike an antenna on the roof of the Capitol building and zip down a cable into the Thomas P. O'Neill Room two floors below. There, before an audience of Senators, Congressmen and assorted commissioners, magician Harry Blackstone Jr. will draw back a black cloth and reveal the first image ever...
Seattle boasts four thriving independent record labels; six key music clubs, like the Vogue, in the downtown area alone; and nearly that many recording studios. Representatives of rival record companies prowl the streets in major- label wolf packs, looking for the next bust-out band: Heard War Babies yet? Checked out Mudhoney? Get on it, and get with it. As Steve Slaton, regent of the local deejays, puts it, "Seattle seems to be the center of the musical universe. It's just the real deal...