Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials and the community's white business executives, who rarely live within the city limits. The outspoken Young, for example, does not hesitate in public to rib his good friend Henry Ford II. When the former Ford Motor Co. boss complained in a speech that the 73-story Detroit Plaza Hotel, the showpiece of the city's celebrated Renaissance Center complex along the waterfront, might be doing nicely in attracting conventions but was not producing enough "transient business," Young took a microphone to declare: "Hank the Deuce just told us we gotta start hot-sheetin' it at the hotel...
...squawk of the radio that would mean news, or tragedy, depending on your outlook. Dorchester, with its distinct line between the white and Black sections, is quiet. So too Brookline, and downtown Boston, where workers busily sweep up a day's worth of bakery wrappings from the Quincy Market plaza. In fact, it looks like it might be a bad night, real quiet...
...short of the 1,666 needed to renominate him at the Democratic Convention in New York City in August. So his strategists tried to upstage a long-scheduled Reagan rally on the steps of the Ohio state capitol in Columbus by having the President address a gathering in the plaza in front of the nearby Nationwide Life Insurance building...
...here. Mrs. Martha Pina, a psychologist, welcomed her cousin Armando Pavron, 29. The son of a banker, Pavron spent seven years in a prison camp for trying to flee from Cuba. He dropped to 110 lbs. working the sugar-cane fields. He is now employed as a dishwasher at Plaza Dining in Secaucus. "Even though I have a university degree, I am happy to wash dishes," he says as he scrubs pots. "First I will learn English. Then I will go back to college. I don't want any charity...
Boston does not bake a 15-foot cake for just any occasion. Beginning at noon today, an estimated 5000-10,000 citizens will gather in City Hall Plaza to gaze upon the bakery masterpiece and join the festivities surrounding the city's 350th birthday. Robert Burke '73, one of the organizers of "Boston Jubilee 350," said yesterday...