Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meet the People. The Times no longer lives on Times Square (but still flashes its headlines to crowds there, from a traveling sign that girdles its old wedge-shaped building). Its present home is half a block away on West 43rd Street, with a new eleven-story annex that breaks through to 44th. This week it will open a fancy information center, where readers may pore over bound volumes and Microfilm editions of the Times that go back...
...rest of the floor, barred from the public's view, is all but finished. It is filled with the block-long city room, where Managing Editor Edwin L. James's staff nightly assembles all the news that's fit to print. Executives sit at the south end, a full block away from some of their reporters. Turner Catledge, assistant to James, was given a pair of opera glasses by his staff to survey the farthest reaches of the room. Near by sits City Editor David Joseph, a shy, balding, quiet-spoken bachelor of 61. His public-address...
There are two theories, said Dr. Colbert, of how the molar may have got so far from land, 1) The dead mastodon, enclosed in a block of ice, may have drifted down the Hudson-then a great, glacier-fed river. Some geologists believe that during the Pleistocene Age the ocean was lower because the glaciers that covered much of the land locked up so much water. So 2) the mastodon may have walked to the scallop bank on its own big feet...
...safe and effective anesthetic seemed nearer their goal. The new technique, gradually improved over the last several years, is a variation of spinal anesthesia (first used for general surgery at the turn of the century). Doctors describe it, in a jawbreaking phrase, as "heavy nupercaine to produce saddle-block anesthesia." Nupercaine is a cocaine substitute. "Heavy" means that it is loaded with a glucose (sugar) solution to make it heavier than the body's spinal fluid. "Saddle block" aptly describes the area anesthetized (the inner thigh and perineum...
Surtout, de la Dignité. No party in France was more anxious to block the London agreement than the Reds. But last week they sat quiet, letting other government critics do most of the talking. Party Chief Maurice Thorez had warned the comrades: "Above all, dignity." Once Bidault remarked that if Europe was split, it was Russia's fault. Fernand Grenier, Communist deputy from Saint-Denis, rose like an angry bull. But Thorez turned like lightning and imperiously shushed...