Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PRINTED in block letters with bright red grease pencil at the top of the first page of the statement read last week by Bernard Goldfine to the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight were the encouraging words "YOU WILL BE GREAT!!" Author of the inspirational message: Manhattan Pressagent (and TV Performer) John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary Jr. Coauthor: Washington Lawyer Roger Robb If nothing else, the words reminded Goldfine that he had behind him one of the gaudiest retinues of lawyers and flacks in the whole history of congressional investigations. This is how the retinue operated - and what...
...Hall of Mirrors of Rome's block-long Quirinale Palace. Italy's 70-year-old President Giovanni Gronchi swore in his good friend Amintore Fanfani, 50, as Premier, along with a Cabinet of 19. Not since Italy became a Republic after World War II had an Italian government leaned so far to the left...
...whipping block-where prisoners were forced to count the strokes aloud as Sommer beat them with a heavy stick. When they lost count, Sommer started again. One man sentenced to 25 strokes got 60 lashes this way. He died on the spot. Sommer blandly admitted the beatings and even built a cardboard model of the whipping block to show the court. "I can't claim to have hit the last strokes as hard as the first," he said. "You always get a little tired...
Eventually the modern U.S. auto may count 25% to 40% of its total weight in aluminum. The major stumbling block has always been cost: aluminum for engines costs about three times as much as grey iron. Yet many engineers are coming around to the theory that costs even out in the long run, since aluminum costs less to machine and process. Moreover, it has many other advantages-no chip, no pit, no peel, no rust. But the biggest advantage of all is in performance. In recent tests with two cars identical except for a difference of 400 lbs. in weight...
...Cool $1,000,000. Landa's most notable fight, before Penn-Texas, was at Fruehauf Trailer Co. There he defended President Roy Fruehauf against a raid after brother Harvey Fruehauf sold a large block of stock to the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. Landa proceeded to raid the raider, made himself a cool $1,000,000 on Fruehauf stock during the fight. Landa welcomes allies from any quarter. During the Fruehauf fight, he negotiated a $1,500,000 loan from the then Teamster President Dave Beck to finance Fruehauf stock purchases...