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...seems to be the first brand-new city parish that the two faiths have ever jointly sponsored. The moving spirit behind the venture is Waterman, who two years ago helped arrange a merger of his own First Presbyterian Church with a nearby United Church parish. Both churches had rundown plants and declining congregations; even together, they could barely afford the new church that Waterman felt was needed. Scouting around to see if other religious groups might be interested, Waterman eventually persuaded Roman Catholic Bishop Charles Helmsing and Episcopal Bishop Edward Welles to join in; construction of St. Mark...
Texas-born Luther Matthews has prospered on the simple notion that people went to motels outside of town because city hotels were "obsolete and rundown." While other motel chains bent over backwards to be everything from convention halls to resorts, Downtowner Corp. zeroed in on the all-but-forgotten traveling salesman for its bread-and-butter trade. The motel mix Matthews offers is free and easy parking, a swimming pool and a good room within walking distance of the town's No. 1 retail center. Obviously the formula works. With a healthy 75% occupancy rate last year...
...pretty lass who liked the Beatles and roller skating, Sylvia was nicknamed Cookie and described by a girl friend as "a sweet nut." With her few possessions - her most treasured was a jewelry box in which she kept two favorite pins -Sylvia moved into Mrs. B.'s rundown house in an Indianapolis blue-collar neighborhood...
...when aging Tran Van Chuong, father of Viet Nam's contentious Dragon Lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, resigned in protest against the Diem regime, Saigon in effect had had no representation in Washington. The Vietnamese embassy, a handsome, four-story structure in northwest Washington, had become rundown and dirty. One of Thai's first projects was to have the building cleaned and refurbished from attic to basement...
Other signs of revolt soon cropped up. Teen-age gangs hit the streets, dressed in sleazy imitations of Edwardian frock coats. The Teddy boys mixed it up in angry race riots with West Indians, who were crowded into rundown districts like Paddington and Netting Hill Gate. Next, boys and girls divided up into foppishly dressed Mods and leather-jacketed Rockers, took to Brighton and Margate on holiday weekends to have a bit of a rumble while their elders rocked with still greater shock over the seamy revelations of the Profumo affair. Suddenly, with Profumo, the veneer of the upper classes...