Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meaning that college, too, was represented. There were Vietniks and Peaceniks, Trotskyites and potskyites, a contingent of 24 Sioux Indians from South Dakota and a band of Iroquois led by one Mad Bear Anderson. When a loudspeaker demanded that the Indians assemble at Truck No. 3 for the 30-block march to the United Nations, hundreds of New Yorkers looked for the truck to get a glimpse of a real live Indian...
DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).-Danny Thomas throws an old-fashioned "Block Party" on a street populated by Irish, Mexicans, Italians and Negroes. Vic Damone, Sammy Davis Jr., Jimmy Durante, Jane Powell and Ricardo Montalban help...
Momentary Tears. During three hours of direct examination by Prosecutor Martin and 1 i hours of cross-examination by Getty, Corazon remained unshaken and-except for a few momentary tears-unsentimental. She accounted in cool syllables for each of the wood blocks, labeled with her former roommates' names, that Martin removed from a scale model of the five-room apartment where the girls were killed. As Martin lifted the block labeled Merlita Gargullo (another Filipina who had moved into the apartment two months before the killings), she offered the recollection that the murderer had asked Merlita: "Do you know...
...police, sledge hammers in hand, battered their way into a Chicago apartment. It was empty. Where were the gamblers they had been tipped off about? Gone, said the tipster. They had moved their bookmaking and policy operation to another house down the block. What to do? Was it legal to go after them in their new lair even though the search warrant specified the first address and not the second...
...half-dozen or so empirical studies of student conservatives are summarized by Block, Haan, and Smith: parents of conservative students are disproportionately Republican and Protestant, and they tend to be authoritarian and achievement-oriented in their child-rearing practices; the students, themselves, tend to view their own value patterns along the lines of Ayn Rand's. Heavily concentrated in business curricula, student rightists appear to be active not only at the large, prestigious and visible institutions, but also at many smaller colleges -- especially church-related ones, southern universities, and technical and other career-oriented institutions...