Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About the only chagrined man at the auction was Boston Real Estate Dealer Mark Gibbons, 41, who had put on the block the massive yellow and black 1937 Rolls-Royce Sedanca de Ville used by Goldfinger in the James Bond movie. Gibbons bought it when, after a fenderside chat, he asked the owner to start it up-and found it was already running. But last week bids failed to meet Gibbons' reserve price of $11,000, which leaves him with a problem. "You can't drive it in the daytime," he says. "It attracts too much attention...
...become a stand-in for Hubert. If he dropped out of the race, McCarthy told a TV interviewer, he would prefer Humphrey to Kennedy. Realizing his error-many of his anti-Administration supporters would leave him if they thought he was merely playing the spoiler's role to block Kennedy-the Minnesotan later hedged his statement, then took a jab at reporters who refused to accept his backtracking. "The people who are with me who seem to be hippies are really the national press," he told an audience at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos...
What most baffles pollsters is the great block of "undecided" voters who swing most elections. In 1952, Gallup's last pre-election poll turned up 13% undecided. On the basis of past voting patterns, he "allocated" the undecideds more than 2 to 1 for the Democrats, which put the Eisenhower-Stevenson election into fifty-fifty country. Had Gallup instead discarded the undecideds and prorated the rest of the vote, his poll would have shown Ike over Adlai by 54% to 46%-Eisenhower won the actual election with 55% of the vote...
...capital's Ozama River, replacing those burned down in the bitter fighting three years ago. More than 80% of the capital's buildings and homes have been repainted in gleaming whites, blues, roses and mustard yellows. In the northwestern suburbs, broad fields have given way to block upon block of middle-and upper-class housing...
...Carnegie Commission on Higher Education). But he will certainly have a say in Norton Simon Inc. When the new company's stock, which will be swapped for Hunt, McCall and Canada Dry shares, begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the man commanding the biggest block of Norton Simon Inc. shares will be Norton Si mon himself. At a likely price of around $40 a share, the collection of Norton Simon Inc. stock certificates controlled by Simon and his family stands to be worth about $70 million...