61.   In broad daylight, downtown Guatemala City is a dicey bazaar of store fronts, street vendors, pickpockets and stick-up artists.

62.   In other words, downtown Cleveland is alive.

63.   In recent years, downtown was home to such dealers as McMorris Ford, Covert Buick and Capitol Chevrolet.

64.   Industry analysts say downtown is in the midst of a renaissance.

65.   It is all the more significant because the Portland downtown is so tiny.

66.   Its eight-block downtown is replete with antiques stores and western clothiers.

67.   Its miniature downtown is the product of too many unrelated trendy ideas, messed up by multi-lane roads.

68.   Its downtown is an Oz of glass and steel and stone skyscrapers rising from the plains.

69.   Last year at this time, downtown Atlanta was a jumble of jackhammers and construction equipment.

70.   More important, downtown was a creative upland, a place where people were caught in a shared sense of artistic adventure.