Word: downtowners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a partnership with California-based Kaiser Industries and Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. They expect to move into commercial, industrial, residential, recreational and agricultural real estate. The three will pool $175 million in cash and properties. Among the latter are Aetna's 630-acre Warner Ranch near downtown Burbank, the Kaiser Companies' 6,000-acre Hawaii Kai residential and resort complex in Honolulu and the 87,500-acre Rancho California project 80 miles southeast of Los Angeles. In a similar venture, American Standard Inc., the plumbing potentate, joined last week with Herbert J. Kendall, a New Jersey builder...
Newark's financial problems would not be so great if its economic base were not crumbling. Downtown department stores have become marginal operations, wary of shoplifters and dealing in cheap goods. Because industrialists prefer to build modern, one-story plants in suburban areas, where land costs are low and the surroundings more congenial, Newark has lost almost 20,000 manufacturing jobs in the last 15 years. An expansion of headquarters facilities by banks and insurance companies located in Newark has partially offset this trend, but this tiny boom has not provided jobs for ghetto dwellers...
...like the terrorized citizenry in an outlaw-ruled old-frontier town. So many people refuse to stay out late that the National Theater has moved up its curtain time one hour to 7:30 p.m. No longer is it necessary to reserve a table for dinner at a fashionable downtown restaurant...
...event can hardly explain why the blatant lawlessness that has always terrorized slum dwellers should spill out into the rest of Washington. Yet, in the disorders that shook Washington after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. last April, ghetto rioters and looters learned that downtown stores and prosperous neighborhoods can be as vulnerable as their own. For many citizens, that legacy is far more troubling than all the rhetoric and social studies with which official Washington has documented the spread of crime...
...though, it was pride and not pain that caused Mantle to quit. He was thinking about retiring last season but, shortly before spring training, while driving from downtown Dallas to his ranch home in the suburbs, he spied some kids playing ball. "I stopped and watched them for a few minutes," he recalls, "and suddenly this great desire to play came over me. I just had to go to Florida...