Word: block
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Murky Tableau. Until that way is found, Capitol Hill will have to make do with the present system, which at least provides a check when one house gets too mischievous. The Senate is expected to block or greatly modify the Whitten and Bow amendments, following the lead of its Appropriations Committee. Last week the committee stripped the amendments from the resolution to which they had been added and approved for floor action a simple measure that allows financing of agencies whose appropriations have not yet been passed. There will doubtless be continued wrangling over federal spending and Johnson...
Religious Taboos. Medical experts are not so certain as the Indian politician that protein deficiency always results in such dreadful and irreversible deterioration. But the problem remains acute. Perhaps a third of India's 510 million people do not get enough protein-a basic building block of life-and even an end to the food shortage will not fill this critical lack. Though India has one-fifth of the world's cattle, religious taboos keep its per capita consumption of beef, a chief source of protein, the lowest of any major country's. Poverty and scarcity...
...effort to cut off the demonstrators sitting on the steps. They were repulsed. SDS had set up their microphones on the wall beside the top steps and was directing traffic and posting troop movements for those who couldn't see: "About 50 MP's are trying to block off the stairs... they're using tear gas... it looks like our people have them surrounded... yup, it looks like a rout," one of the speakers calmly announced to the crowd...
...messenger came running from the North side of the Pentagon with news of violent clashes between Mar- shals and demonstrators near the access roads. "This is a picnic up here," he screamed, "people are being massacred down there. You can hear the heads splitting a block away." There was discussion about whether people should leave their positions and go down to the access roads but it was decided that it was best to stay. A boy next to me started memorizing the number of a local lawyer. Someone else from behind me said that they wouldn't mind being taken...
With such allies at her side, Mrs. Hicks has been able to block almost every serious effort that has been made to improve the ghetto schools and, confronted by a recent state law specifically indicating financial penalties for segregated systems, she has been able to stall the wheels with sufficient success to prevent any meaningful improvement and not lose a penny of state aid for Boston's budget...