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Sandwiched between Interstate 84 and Route 7, the lifelines of Connecticut's suburban sprawl, the 142-acre fairground was gobbled up by Wilmorite Inc., a Rochester, N.Y. , development firm. Wilmorite plans to construct one of New England's largest shopping malls, with more than a million square feet of commercial space. It will be called the Danbury Fair Mall, and the developers anticipate that it will draw nearly 35,000 customers a day, generate between $200 million and $300 million in sales annually, and stand in blacktop splendor as a testimonial to the properous future of Danbury...
...serve as mayor of Rome; of a heart attack; in Rome. Affectionately nicknamed "Joe Bananas" because of his twisted smile and boxer-like stance, the popular Petroselli, who took office in 1979, enhanced Rome's amenities by turning an area near the Coliseum into a Sundays-only pedestrian mall and instituting summer evening presentations of music, films and plays...
...WINDS are changing; the bloom is fading from false mandates," labor chieftain Lane Kirkland said Saturday. And the size of his audience lent credence to his words--close to 300,000 trade unionists were crowded onto the Mall in our nation's capital to say they were sick already of President Reagan's economic policies...
...could translate them into public support. An adviser to Presidents, he led the fight to desegregate the armed forces, marched long before demonstrations were legal, and in 1963 initiated one of the first major lunch-counter sit-ins, in Jackson, Miss. When 250,000 people gathered on the Washington Mall, Martin Luther King Jr. captured the headlines with his fiery oratory, but Roy Wilkins was a key figure in organizing the march and in the backstage lobbying that ultimately achieved passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. During the turmoil of the '60s, younger, more militant blacks assailed Wilkins...
...trip to Baltimore's Harborplace is no more rewarding than or different from a trip to Santa Monica Place or the Mall in Columbia, Md. Blindfold a stranger and take him into any of these areas, and he will not be able to tell the difference. They sell the same products from the same stores. Baltimore and other cities replanned in this way cannot exist forever on weekend sales of Day-Glo plastic planters and kites...