Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband, John F. Kennedy. Scribbled across the letter are several notations by the unidentified store's credit department, questioning where the sweater was actually purchased and finally deciding to settle for an $18.50 credit. The latest tidbit of Jacqueline Kennedy memorabilia is soon to be put on the block along with three similar letters (expected price: several hundred dollars apiece) by Manhattan Autograph Dealer Charles Hamilton, who will not say where he got them-except that they were "salvaged" from someone's wastebasket. One of the other letters indicates certain gaps in Jackie's well-known attention...
...With some unexpected difficulty in Cornell's case. The New York State attorney general has filed suit to block sale of the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory to EDP Technology, Inc., a Washington, D.C., company. The state contends that Cornell has no right to sell the lab to a private, profit-making company...
Unhappily, he is contained in a clumsily updated block off the old Chips. It is no longer the Great War but World War II that punctuates the scholastic calendar, Chips' missus (Petula Clark) becomes the victim not of childbirth but of a V-l rocket. Still, the boys are the same deferential crew; the school is ivied and kind, an eon removed from the kind of place Orwell considered "a tightrope over a cesspool." The only instance of sadism, in fact, is the disastrous decision to make Goodbye, Mr. Chips a musical. As a result, Leslie Bricusse was given...
...demonstrators were divided into three aflinity groups. The largest-including M. I. T.'s Rosa Luxemburg SDS and the 32 Weathermen-were to picket the main entrance, and two smaller groups to block the parking lot gates...
...everyone headed for Building Seven, the main administration building. A 15-minute march through the building's winding corridors-chanting "Get off your ass, get out of class, end war research" and "John Brown, live like him, dare to struggle, dare to win" -ended with the demonstrators about a block away from...