Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed too difficult. This time Dr. Lederman and Associate Richard L. Garwin had a new idea. Working at top speed with Graduate Research Assistant Marcel Weinrich, they set up an extremely simple experiment. In the path of the mu mesons streaming from the cyclotron, they placed a block of carbon about 6-in. square and 1-in. thick with a coil of wire wound around its perimeter...
...Guaranteed Rights. The debate on Rule XXII not only produced Nixon's unequivocal and unexpected opinion. It also showed, when the vote came, a stronger block of liberal votes (55 to 38) than Southern Senators had anticipated. Banking on that liberal strength and on additional recruits drummed off the fence by the Nixon decision, Illinois' Everett Dirksen, the Republican whip, last week introduced the Administration's civil-rights measure. Little different from last year's bill, the Dirksen measure involved guaranteed minority voting rights, a presidential civil-rights commission, a civil-rights division within the Department...
...door to the Vanderbilts' 23-room "Beaulieu" in Newport, R.I. (She is survived by her fourth husband, John E. Rovensky, Manhattan financier, whom she married in 1954.) This week her Manhattan house, the last of the fabulous Fifth Avenue mansions to be fully occupied, will go on the block...
...service, is already as surely a thing of the past as the stately English homes for which the objects were first fashioned. Gone is the era in which the lady of the mansion and her good friend Grace Vanderbilt, who lived across 86th Street, would be chauffeured around the block to visit (because a lady went no farther than from her door to the curb on foot...
...problems: the Katy has paid no dividends since 1930. To some railroaders, Deramus' appointment hinted a Great Western-Katy merger. Though Katy officials last week denied it, a group of principal stockholders in both the Great Western and Katy reportedly have already obtained options to buy a large block of the Katy's common stock...