Word: blockful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves proud before: they once had a colt named Night Vision, who was the offspring of Eight Thirty and Knothole. But long acknowledged as the most adroit namesman in racing is Millionaire Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 55, whose past coups include Crashing Bore (by Social Climber, out of Stumbling Block), Age of Consent (by My Request-Novice) and Social Outcast (by Shut Out-Pansy). And when Vanderbilt in 1949 bred a stallion named Polynesian to a mare named Geisha, he came up with a name that will be remembered as long as horse races are run: Native Dancer. Trying...
...surprise that Knowland reacted hotly when Negroes organized a boycott of a square block of food and liquor stores called Housewives Market. It was a curious boycott: Negroes had no particular grievance against the stores. But when local Black Panther Leader Bobby Hutton was shot and killed by police last April, black militants decided to retaliate by forcing Housewives Market to support their demands; the chief of these was a call for the indictment of the police involved in the shooting. Despite heavy Negro patronage, the stores understandably demurred, and pickets assembled to turn customers away, often by threatening them...
...Committee, having been called into being over the Dow disturbances, resolved first to tackle the issue of recruitment. The central question was, would or could Harvard bar those companies whose policies were considered unacceptable, from recruiting at the University or not? The stumbling block was always that it was extremely difficult to devise a method of deciding precisely which companies could be judged "unacceptable" to as disparate a community as Harvard...
...Cadets from Army spoiled a great season for both the Winter and Spring track teams. Indoors, after dropping an early season dual meet to Harvard, the West Pointers rallied for a 62-54 Heptagonal victory. Outdoors, the cadets combined with Yale to block Harvard's Heps ambitions--Yale winning by a point, Army second and Harvard third by four points...
William Surface's jacket-portrait reminded me of the face of an Alabama State Trooper I once watched block a quiet, unpublicized attempt at school desegregation by young children. I had been working for The Southern Courier; it was the last thing I remembered from the South; and it happened only three days before I started my freshman year at Harvard. Surface has the same single-minded resolve as the trooper to enforce laws arrogantly for the law's sake...