Word: balke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of its six-year, $700 million highway safety bill, the Administration requested discretionary authority to establish automobile safety standards-and fully expected Congress to balk. As it turned out, Congressmen complained that the Administration had not gone sufficiently far or fast. Senator Abraham Ribicoff, a stern evangelist of traffic safety when he was Governor of Connecticut, urged that the Administration should be required, not authorized, to set safety standards, adding that in any case they could not be incorporated until the 1970 models. Asked Ribicoff: "Are we going to watch 50 million new cars roll off the assembly lines...
...argues, she may easily look and act 16 or older, and the male should be allowed reasonable age-mistake unless he is more than four years her senior. "Finally," says Myers, "consensual intercourse with females 16 and older should not be branded as rape." If legislatures balk, he adds, "the courts themselves, as in Hernandez, should take the initiative and bring their decisions into line with social realities by recognizing the defense of reasonable mistake...
...Warner). The Downtown darling of the younger generation smoothly shifts gears and heads uptown, where the ballad lovers live, picking her wistful way through ethnic pop favorites like Volare, Girl From Ipanerna and Never on Sunday. The beat is still tricky enough to please the youngsters, although they might balk at her slow version of Britain's second national anthem- I Want to Hold Your Hand...
...solutions to New York's newspaper battles seem very distant. The publishers remain hopelessly split in their thinking; during negotiations they could scarcely agree even on routine matters. The ten craft unions are also snarling at one another. The skilled unions-Printers, Photoen-gravers, Machinists-are beginning to balk at across-the-board wage increases; they want percentage increases that would bring them more money. The unskilled-Mailers, Deliverers, Paper Handlers-on the other hand, want to stick to flat-sum increases, which, at their lower pay rates, would mean more money to them...
...Walt Alston made his move. He took Koufax out for a pinch hitter-Don Drysdale-who struck out on three pitches. After that the box score became a nightmare. The Twins won 5-1, with the aid of three Dodger errors (Alston's didn't count), a balk, and a wild pitch. Koufax tried to take the blame: "My curve was all over the place," he said. "I just couldn't make the pitches I wanted to." But the Twins knew better. "Just getting Sandy out of the game was a big boost to us," said Winning...