Word: block
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...House and Midwest. U.N. Ambassador and former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, 59, is an able Ford friend and confidant who is also highly popular with moderates, intellectuals and Easterners; but his name evokes memories of the bitter 1964 Republican Convention, when he made a late and abortive effort to block Barry Goldwater's nomination...
...long-stalled Geneva talks could be resumed without the stumbling block of the P.L.O.'s presence, which Israel adamantly opposes...
...meteorologists have traced Europe's grueling hot spell to two strong high-pressure zones, one centered over the Azores, the other just northeast of Iceland. For some unknown reason, the two came together to create the "Azores bridge." This in turn formed what weather experts called the "omega block," a high-pressure barricade that prevented the normal clockwise movement of damp air from the Atlantic to Europe, a flow that usually assumes a vast omega (Ω) shape. Australian meteorologists have attributed the drought to the unexplained absence of the rain-bearing westerly winds that usually sweep across the lower...
Naber, however, was far from through. After beating Matthes, he retreated to a training room, turned off all the lights and mentally raced the 200-meter freestyle. Less than an hour later he was racing it in reality. This time he left the starting block punctually, but at the finish was .2 sec. off U.S.C. Teammate Bruce Furniss's world-record performance of 1:50.3. And Naber, too, had broken the record...
...Jimmy Carter is stirring a totally different reaction. This early in the campaign, Carter already is picking up a few business votes-including that of Henry Ford II, chairman of Ford Motor-and has got most businessmen at least to regard him without animosity. Says Seattle Investment Banker Robert Block: "People no longer seem to equate Democrats with doomsday...