Word: downtowners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHICAGO. Oct. 9-A disciplined mob of demonstrators led by Weathermen rampaged through downtown Chicago late last night., fighting with police and breaking windows in cars and buildings. Several demonstrators were reported wounded by police birdshot and pistol fire; the Associated Press reported at least 40 arrested...
...what is its proper place in the scheme of national priorities? Granted that money saved by delaying the SST would not likely be spent in the ghettos, it is still debatable whether a supersonic transport is a better investment than, say, an aircraft that could take off and land downtown. Every previous generation of aircraft has been cheaper, safer and more comfortable than the one before, but the SST is only faster. It will be no more comfortable and no more economical to operate than the 362-passenger Boeing 747 jumbo jet, which is due to enter service next year...
...free-lance photog in Boston one summer and had even made money off of it. We compared notes on edging out the other photographers at the secne of the news and beating them out in getting your pictures down to AP first. We went to the big demonstration downtown when Nixon was there and ran into a lot of Secret Service men. and photographers who all came smiling up to her and joked and stood around for hours. She later explained why they were all creeps and how you could always find them at these scenes...
...cultivated a sizable lore to surround his public image. One Washington burcaucrat told me very solemnly this summer that Nader never sleeps, rarely eats, and only takes time off from his work to visit his mother in Connecticut. Another man pointed out the spot on F Street in downtown Washington where Nader supposedly disappeared one sunny day, only to emerge two hours later on a speaker's podium in California...
...clash between those two viewpoints kindled tensions again last week in Pittsburgh, where 3,000 demonstrators paraded through downtown streets to demand more construction jobs for Negroes. "Freedom! Freedom!" chanted the marchers, as they raised clenched fists, waved black flags and circled building projects manned by unions whose memberships are almost exclusively white. More than 1,000 white demonstrators-clergymen, suburban housewives, students and even a few businessmen-marched along with ghetto militants...