Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsmagazine is to get the news, and in an age of speed, space and science, big news is often made in the most far-flung extremes of the globe. Such news was made last week when the Air Force rescued a 20-man scientific team from a block of ice in the Arctic. Getting the news this time required extraordinary speed. From his post in Anchorage, Correspondent Bill Smith flew to Fairbanks, waited in 10° weather for the arrival of part of the I.G.Y. team. From Boston, Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens drove to Westover Air Force Base to meet returning...
...days later President Alberto Lleras Camargo called Rojas' bluff. Troops and cops rumbled up in tanks and halftracks, sealed off a 60-block area around Roias' residence. A police colonel and a squad of soldiers hustled the ex-dictator off to a nearby office building, where a Senate committee was meeting to draw up the corruption indictments. After a two-hour grilling, the witness went home...
...Soviety Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin replied Moscow would agree to halt tests only if the United States and Britain accept an immediate ban "for all time." He accused the Western Powers of doing all in their power to "barricade and block the way" toward agreement...
...take a boy from the Midwest, from Ponca City, Okla., for instance. Teach him to speak Italian, then put him in an apartment that is 20 years older than his own country's government. Put this apartment in the center of Rome about a block from where Julius Caesar was killed, where from his studio window he can see the church in which the first act of Tosca takes place. Let him become close friends with several Italian families. Let him visit the major museums and cities of Europe, and live the last three months in Venice...
Died. The Right Rev. Karl Morgan Block, 71, brisk, stately Protestant Episcopal Bishop of California; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Bishop Block, who will be succeeded by his coadjutor, James Albert Pike, formerly dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan, collapsed at an ordination ceremony in Grace Cathedral, murmured to his assistant, "Bishop, will you continue?", died in the sacristy moments later...