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...were fried-chicken restaurants, claims to have 55 in operation, another 120 abuilding. In cities, minitheaters are sometimes fitted into the hollowed shells of old urban palaces. The Warner Theater on Times Square, where epics like Exodus used to play to reserved-seat audiences of 1,500, has been rebuilt to house three small halls, two currently playing horror movies, and the third featuring a nudie named Navele...
After the great Chicago fire-100 years ago last month-the city rebuilt itself in an original and handsome style that became one of its proud distinctions. Chicago may have been Sandburg's "Hog Butcher," but there was also the Chicago school of architecture. None of the city's architects surpassed Louis Sullivan, whose buildings combined elegant ornament with a functional austerity that was to influence the imaginations of great 20th century builders like Frank Lloyd Wright...
Potter reported that the university pianos he inspected were "dirty and in need of adjustments and repairs." He added that some pianos have been recently rebuilt which were too old to warrant the expenses...
...neighborhood store. He was afraid to leave his home. The insurance man and laundry man refused to come to his house. Crime became intolerable." Adds Charles Bowser, executive director of the Philadelphia Urban Coalition: 'The massive confrontations haven't produced anything. They haven't rebuilt buildings; there are no more jobs now, no more anything." This summer, many blacks have shifted from marches and demonstrations to more pragmatic political activity that often paid off in local elections; blacks have begun to take over many city offices. Says the Rev. Ed Reddick, director of research for Operation Breadbasket...
...earlier proclaimed a campaign of civil disobedience, and throughout Ulster, Catholics began to withhold their payments of rent and property taxes. A one-day strike virtually shut down the business district of the predominantly Catholic city of Londonderry. When 1,300 British troops attempted to dismantle the recently rebuilt Derry barricades, which since 1969 have symbolized the Catholics' determination to defend themselves, residents responded with rioting and random rifle fire. Two moderate M.P.s, trying to restore order, were arrested for "failing to move on the command of a member of Her Majesty's forces." Next day, 30 leading...