Word: block
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Flailing his arms and thumping his desk in a nearly empty Senate chamber last week, Wyoming's freshman Democratic Senator Gale Me Gee loosed a rambling tirade in his campaign to help New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson block confirmation as Secretary of Commerce of former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss (TIME, June 15). Charged McGee: Strauss was guilty of "evasion" and even "falsehood" during the long, quarrelsome Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee hearings on his nomination...
...Senate Armed Services Committee kept gallantly silent in public while trying to figure out in private what to do about a delicate problem of senatorial courtesy and chivalry. The problem: a campaign by Maine Republican Margaret Chase Smith, the Senate's only lady member, to block a fourth star for Air Force Lieut. General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., named last month to command the Pacific Air Forces. The Smith-O'Donnell feud started two years ago, when Senator Smith, annoyed at the Air Force's failure to promote her administrative assistant from colonel to brigadier...
...surgery at 7:30, has taken off only two weekends (to hunt deer) in four years. Lean, slightly stooped and with big, penetrating dark eyes, he is so miserly of time that he never drives when he can fly, never walks when he can drive -even the one block from medical school to hospital...
Foreign manufacturers trying to sell in the U.S. often have to worry not only about competitive pricing but about U.S. national security. U.S. electrical manufacturers have argued that foreign equipment could not be properly repaired and maintained in a national emergency, invoked national security to block the English Electric Co. from supplying turbines for the Greers Ferry Dam in Arkansas, even though English Electric's bid was 17% lower than the contract winner, Baldwin Lima-Hamilton Corp. (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization ruled, in effect, that the national security argument...
Nearly ready are plans for a Health Center and office building, which will eventually occupy the whole block bounded by Mass. Ave., and Mt. Auburn, Holyoke, and Dunster Sts. The first part of this construction will begin within a year...