Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mark. As the staff director of the President's Committee on Registration and Voting, I was shocked to find that while apathy is a major cause of nonvoting, election laws written when buggy whips were a big industry and high-button shoes the latest style are the major block. The fact is, we are shortly going to have 100 million Americans attempting to register and vote. Our procedures and practices simply are not up to that number, and revision must take place -and soon...
...Lecanuet's key block of center votes that concerned both De Gaulle and Mitterrand and made both men move toward the center in their campaigning. Mitterrand insisted that he was not the candidate of the left but of "the republic"; De Gaulle argued that he was neither of the right nor left: "I am for France." The Gaullists hoped France reciprocated but had their fears. Premier Georges Pompidou was sufficiently worried to call a press conference to announce that if France would only give De Gaulle another chance, he would mend his ways. "It goes without saying that General...
...problem will be getting Colombia's Congress to go along. Dissident Liberals, Conservatives and followers of ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla control 126 of the 282 seats, more than enough for the one-third needed to block legislation under the current law. The next campaign of the two Llerases will be to change the law to a simple majority-and that may be tougher than winning the presidency itself...
...near the site, hugging a Redstone rocket like Shepard's. The gantry was a converted oil derrick, bought hastily after Sputnik (the night before Kurt H. Debus, director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, had described details of Shepard's launch: "We had a man in a block-house watching the color of the flame, about 150 feet away. If it looked too bluish, or whatever, he was supposed to press a little button next...
...plagued Harvard squash team escaped from Army Saturday with a 6-3 victory and a major stumbling block...