Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stomach. In Danang, Ky's strategy was simple but relentless. His 3,000 loyal troops-marines, airborne and Rangers-slowly drove the rebel force of 1,200 into an eight-block area centering on the east bank of the Danang River and three Buddhist pagodas. At the outset, neither side had any stomach for killing: most of the gunfire was purposely aimed high. Government tanks cleared street after street, carefully hosing them with .50-cal. machine-gun fire as they moved forward. Government spotter planes circled the rebel area, dropping leaflets that announced the appointment of General Huynh...
...JOSEPH L. BLOCK, chairman of Chicago's Inland Steel Co., who in 1962 helped break the steel price rise by refusing to go along with the rest of the industry: "The wage-price guidelines are unjust, discriminatory and harmful to the economy. Steel and a few other so-called basic industries are expected to adhere rigidly to the prevailing prices, while thousands of others go their merry way and raise prices at will. The Government's attack on inflation should be through the exercise of proper monetary and fiscal policies. Federal expenditures such as public works should...
When you walk up Warren St. in Roxbury to go to the office of Melvin Miller, change is all around you. You can hardly hear yourself think, because bulldozers are flattening out what used to be a city block. The only think you can smell is crushed cement rubble kicked up by the bulldozers...
...subtle magic of Vermeer's art," exclaims Director John Walker, "the marvelous luminous effects, the soft texture of flesh and materials, the sense of suspended action and above all the tranquillity." One expert estimates that the Vermeer would have fetched $3 million on the auction block, but it will cost the National nothing. The gift of Harry Waldron Havemeyer and Horace Havemeyer Jr. in memory of their father, the late Horace Havemeyer of the sugar-refining family, it will become the gallery's property upon the death of his widow...
...action, but there is little chance that Congress will turn down such a princely gesture. Most likely spot will be an area adjacent to the National Gallery. Lady Bird is known to be specially taken with the idea of an outdoor sculpture garden that would extend across the three-block width of the Mall, be available to millions of tourists...