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Word: block (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...covets, and with good reason. Mrs. Hicks collected 28.1% of last week's vote (compared with White's 19.8%), principally from the large blue-collar and lower-middle-class groups who feel bypassed by federal and city welfare programs and who support her unsuccessful attempts to block measures promoting public-school integration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massachusetts: Southies' Comfort | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

East Germany has also tried to block Bonn's overtures to Eastern European countries, has continued to attack the Federal Republic publicly and has generally acted the way Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht looks: tough and unbending. It is even using Martin Luther to exacerbate relations with West Germany. It has limited to a meager 100 the number of West German clergymen who may come to this month's ceremonies at Wittenberg commemorating the 450th anniversary of the posting of the 95 Theses. Those who do get in must affirm that they oppose Bonn's "revanchist policies." East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Special Delivery in Berlin | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...unkind enough to suggest that Pike might have used this pipeline to the beyond to clear up his doubts about such doctrines as the Trinity and Virgin Birth, but the conversations were rather prosaic. A chat between Pike and his predecessor as Bishop of California, the Rt. Rev. Karl Block, dwelled on the problems of buying church property. An exchange with the late father of British theologian Donald MacKinnon elicited the helpful information that MacKinnon once owned two cats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Episcopalians: Messages Through the Medium | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...anyone who has ever walked a mile for a Camel (or any other smoke) knows, it often pays to keep going another block or two. In Atlanta, cigarette prices range from 28? a pack at cut-rate auto-service stations to 50? at downtown nightspots. Beverly Hills, Calif., smokers have been paying prices ranging from 32? to 45? in one four-block area. Chicagoans fork over anywhere from 35? to 50? for the same sort of butts. "It's all on the basis of what the traffic will bear," explains Los Angeles Tobacco Distributor Norbert Orens. "Cigarette prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tobacco: How Smokers Get Hooked | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...sculpture bolted to the Lehman courtyard two weeks ago on a "trial basis." If reaction is favorable--and that means the reaction of President Pusey, the University Planning Committee, and Thomas E. Crooks '49, Master of Dudley House--the piece will be permanently anchored in a massive concrete block...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Yard Gets 'Upright Motive No. 8' | 10/4/1967 | See Source »

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