Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dearest Man. Pressagenting a plan for the erection of eight new Moscow skyscrapers (16 to 32 stories), Vechernyaya Moskva predicted that Moscow's skyline of the future will be festive and eye-pleasing, not at all like its American counterpart-not a sway or a crack in a block. Russian architects will avoid the "errors" of U.S. builders-the Soviet skyscrapers will not yield to the wind, but will stand "unshaken and firm...
...life span of the man they chose coincides almost exactly with the U.S. regime in Puerto Rico. Luis Muñoz Marin was born on Feb. 18, 1898, five months before the troops landed (and just down the block from Fortaleza palace, where he now presides...
Exeter showed up for the match one man shy, so a Red and Gray caddy named Block volunteered to fill in. He shot a 76, the day's lowest score...
Visiting this happy home of spoiled son and spoiling mother is a young Pennsylvania girl. Obviously from the southernmost part of the state, Carol Wheeler talks with a drawl that sounds as if she is reading from large block-capitaled signs in each wing...
...many parts of the world, the executioners' business is booming, but not in Germany. Since Hitler's fall, there has been a sharp recession in the head-chopping line; Gustav Voelpel, Berlin's executioner, has had only 30 calls to the block since the war. "At 1,000 marks a head," he says, "I can scarcely make both ends meet." Hard-pressed, Gustav decided that what he needed was a sideline to supplement his income. He apparently found one. Last week, obligingly wearing his formal professional attire for the benefit of photographers (see cut) Gustav appeared...