Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...panel truck and an automobile collided at Memorial Drive and Western Avenue, a block east of the married students' dorms, at 3 p.m. The impact of the collision flipped the Oldsmobile through a green iron fence and into ten feet of the Charles...
...Wladyslaw Gomulka, which has conducted a running feud with the church, is desperately anxious to avoid or at least diminish any public demonstration of Roman Catholic power in Poland. Last week, as the church began the first of its millennium celebrations, the Communists were busy creating every imaginable block and trying to convert the millennium into a purely secular "Polish state" occasion...
...town of Danang, three battalions of Vietnamese marines at Danang Air Force Base showed every sign of marching into the city. When he heard of this, Colonel Dam Quang Yeu, commander of Vietnamese army troops at Hoi An, 15 miles to the south, decided to march on Danang to block the paratroopers. With several hundred men, 13 armored carriers, four 155-mm. howitzers and enough ammunition to blow up a city, he set up a command post four miles outside the Danang air base and trained his guns...
Fear in Manhattan. Perhaps nothing illustrates the new swinging London better than narrow, three-block-long Carnaby Street, which is crammed with a cluster of the "gear" boutiques where the girls and boys buy each other clothing. Nine of the shops for boys on Carnaby Street are owned by Designer John Stephen, 29, who last week took his tattersall shirts, Dutch boy caps, form-fitting pants and vinyl vests to Manhattan to put the fear of God into parents there. As for the girls, the most In shop for gear is Biba's boutique in Kensington, which...
...Harvard's graduate admissions office. "In effect, professors are picking their own successors, and they do it very carefully." This puts the small-college senior, whose faculty is less famous, at a disadvantage. But Harvard accepted one applicant whose unknown professor topped his letter of recommendation in big block letters: TAKE THIS MAN! Harvard also took the applicant who pleaded in the margin: "Help me!" "We found this irresistible," recalls Cavell. "He dropped out after one term." But generally, "You can't con an admissions committee," says Cavell. "You can't be cooler, or smarter. What...