61.  A small-time private detective in a good-size American city ekes out a living with missing-person and divorce cases.

62.  A study of American cities by the Clinton administration says the strong national economy has left most of them in their best financial shape in decades.

63.  A typical story in the typical American city, the drive-by shooting has lost its dramatic edge.

64.  Adshel had originally planned to open an office in New York as part of efforts to compete for contracts for street furniture advertising that are awarded by American cities.

65.  After the recent violence between police and mobs in Cincinnati, the question hangs over other American cities in distress.

66.  All of Paris is an arcade, and many American cities have remade themselves as shopping malls in order to survive.

67.  All future American bidding cities must take an oath not to grease IOC delegates and similarly suspect characters.

68.  All good reasons to acknowledge great American cities.

69.  Buffalo stands apart, less homogenized than many American cities.

70.  But a serious American city has to shake, rattle and roll during a World Series without an act of God or plate tectonics.