Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today's curlers slide a 44-lb. block of highly polished granite that looks like a wheel of cheese with a handle on top. And the game has evolved into a test that combines the finesse of golf with elements of lawn bowling, horseshoe pitching and pool-plus a dash of chess strategy. A rink (four-man team) scores one point for each stone it keeps closer to the bull's-eye than any rival stones. An expert curler can slide his stone more than 100 ft. down the ice with a spin so fine that it will...
...announced terms quite different from the Rosenstiel purchase. Though Rosenstiel was paid largely in cash, other shareholders will be offered a package of cash, long-term debentures and warrants for their stock. The terms were hardly made known when last week three irate Schenley stockholders brought suits to block the deal. Among their charges: that Riklis would merely raid Schenley's treasury to recoup the merger costs...
...Considered hors concours are Leigh and Mary Block, whose gilt-edged collection, valued at $10 million, focuses conservatively on impressionists and postimpressionists. It is currently touring U.S. museums...
McCarthy's Madison headquarters is in a rented store front on Mifflin St.--one side of a pie-shaped block facing the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds. Around the block on Hamilton St. is the State Democratic Headquarters. In its window, beneath a framed color photograph of President John F. Kennedy, are rows of bumper stickers reading "LBJ for the U.S.A." This is Johnson territory...
...years of lecturing because "Here people want to believe, want to agree with you." Still, he constantly worries about his worthiness to appear before them. Two or three days before each lecture he begins to live in the subject he wants to discuss, in walks around the block or along the river. Nothing is written, or even mentally composed. Sentences (except for the first and the last, which he says he forgets by the time he gets to it anyway) aren't attempted. He prepares by convincing himself of his conviction in the validity of his ideas. His career...