Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tearing down of a section of the old Rogers Block, the first Urban Renewal project, will be preceded by a motorcade leaving City Hall at 4:30 p.m. Mayor Edward J. Sullivan and other city officials will speak at the demolition site...
Included in the $1 million Rogers Block project are the razing of the 4 1/2-acre area by the city and its development by a private industry. Two-thirds of the net cost will be absorbed by the federal government under urban renewal legislation, and one-third by the city...
...M.I.T.'s Dr. Killian (see box). It also led to the investiture of William Holaday, already the Pentagon's missileman, as a special kind of official "clothed with all the authority that the Secretary [of Defense] himself possesses in this field, so that no administrative or interservice block can occur...
...after taking the snap from center, moved out to his right along the line of scrimmage, keeping the ball until actually in the process of being tackled by Crimson left end Hal Keohane. He then lateraled off to left-halfback McTigue, who had been trailing the play. A timely block took care of one potential Crimson tackler, and McTigue eluded another with a dramatic leap into the air. All-in-all the play covered 47 yards...
...hymning San Francisco's charms in suitably breezy prose, Sacramento-born Herb Caen (rhymes with reign) has long enjoyed the title "Mr. San Francisco," and one of the most faithful followings of any local columnist in the U.S. (TIME, July 1). On his three-block walk in 1950, Caen took with him 10,000 to 15,000 readers. The upward-struggling Chronicle (circ. 190,045), which has run six columnists in Caen's space without filling the gap, hopes that Herb's homecoming will draw an extra 30,000 circulation and regain some of the advertising that...