Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First on the chopping block was B.U. It must be remembered that although B.U. sports a good hockey team, the remainder of its sports program would run into serious trouble with the Boston Latin J.V.s. The Crimson field event group had their Terrier counterparts for dinner, taking first and second place in every event. Final score: Harvard...
...Revolution's most important reform in the last few years has been the increased emphasis on mass organizations: the women's and students' organizations, the trade unions, and the block groups, or Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR's). Under the new Constitution adopted last year, these organizations form the basis of the "popular power." This power structure builds upwards from the mass organizations, through municipal and provincial assemblies to the national assembly and the council of state, of which Fidel Castro is president...
...block level the municipal representatives are required to periodically convene assemblies and report to their constituency. Representatives are not exempted from their job responsibilities; they are full-time workers as well as part-time public servants. Elections are held without personal campaigning-candidates are allowed to post only a photo and a biography, Any person may run for office, but Party members are usually elected, because they are most often the best citizens, Arce asserted...
With a satanic stroke of his pen, Syndicated Cartoonist Herbert L. Block has drawn and quartered Washington politicians for more than three decades. Says Block, whose frequent quarry was the jowly, bushy-browed Richard Nixon: "My cartoons are opinion pieces and are recognized as such. My opinion." To honor the Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist, the National Press Club gave him its Fourth Estate Award, which has gone in the past to such heavies as CBS's Walter Cronkite and the New York Times's James Reston. The 68-year-old "Herblock," as he signs his name, says he plans...
Number four-player Stone and number six McGlade also posted 3-0 wins, making the combined game score 27-0 for the four-through-six player block this season...