Word: blockful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inspiration that his chief domestic Cabinet officer, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, finally resigned in despair. Yet Mills, while generally conservative, is not one of the dwindling company of Southern obstructionists who use the committee chairmanships that devolve upon them through the encrusted traditions of seniority to block anything and everything new. A Harvard-trained lawyer and former judge, he has helped enact much liberal legislation during his 29 years in the House. On roll-call votes during the past three years, Mills backed the Administration 65% of the time, a relatively high figure for a Southern Democrat...
...never been hit so hard, was turned into a city besieged and sundered by house-to-house fighting. In Hué, the ancient imperial city of Viet Nam and the architectural and spiritual repository of Vietnamese history, the Communists seized large parts of the city?and only grudgingly yielded them block by block under heavy allied counterattacks at week...
...gala banquet in Richmond, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts named the tall and stately Mrs. Brown "Collector of the Year," an award bestowed by the museum's enthusiastic society of collectors on their exemplars (past titleholders: Virginia's Paul Mellon, Chicago's Leigh Block and Cinemactor Vincent Price) in return for a chance to view some of the collec tor's prizes. For her turn, Mrs. Brown put on exhibition 78 prints, drawings and watercolors and 25 books depicting British military uniforms from Henry VIII to George V, selected from her martial collection, which...
...operation took more than eight hours-longest of the five heart transplants so far performed. When it was over, the exhausted Kantrowitz said realistically: "I don't think any heart transplant can be considered a success until the patient goes home." Eight hours later, Block died...
Died. Louis Block, 58, recipient of the world's fifth heart transplant (see MEDICINE...