Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome, Cardinal Stritch was rushed to Sanatrix Clinic. Telegrams poured in from all over the world. To consult with the Italian doctors, two U.S. physicians flew to Rome without waiting to get their passports in order. At the Cardinal's bedside, they concurred in the diagnosis: a block-probably a clot-in a major artery of his right arm. This week the doctors agreed on a drastic recourse: amputation of the Cardinal...
...sized office that Ochs used. A polite perfectionist, Sulzberger plans no major switches in the Times's tried formula. "We're always making minor changes-we never try to startle." Major future project is the erection of a modern new home for the paper on a four-block-long frontage on Manhattan's West Side. Already begun, its first building will be completed in 1959, will cost some $20 million...
...million in loans; $500 million would be used to improve plant and facilities, $200 million for new freight cars. For long-term aid, the Administration wants to: ¶ Give the Interstate Commerce Commission power to drop unprofitable passenger and freight runs, and end the power of state commissions to block the ICC. ¶Tighten up on truckers now exempt from ICC rate regulations, since the Administration feels that many cut-rate, "private" truckers are actually public carriers, deserve no exemption. ¶Cut down on rate exemptions for farm produce truckers. Designed to help farmers, the exemptions have been so broadened...
...Stephen Leacock who once remarked that whenever a beauty contest winner was announced he could think of at least five girls on his block who looked better. This, unhappily, is even more often the case with art juries and the prizes they give. Why prizes need be selected at all, save for reasons of incentive, is a much argued question which rarely gets answered. Yet, this jury did well. First prize went to Jose Buscaglia for his sculpture ". . . of an Inspiration." Sculptors too often suffer the fate of going unnoticed in an exhibition of paintings, as if their contribution...
...headlights, fins, tails, wings, etc., that is called an automobile in 1958." Reuther agreed with a Dutch newsman who thought that U.S. cars were getting "sillier and bigger" and added: "I think the auto industry should make a car which at least could be parked in a single block...