Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend of Lyndon Johnson and news editor of the Johnsons' Austin television station, was accompanying Claudia Rutt, 18, for a polio shot she needed before entering Texas Christian University. Claudia suddenly sank to the ground. Paul bent over her, then pitched to the sidewalk himself. Both were dead. A block north, Political Scientist Harry Walchuk, 39, a father of six and a teacher at Michigan's Alpena Community College, browsed in the doorway of a newsstand after working all morning in the college library. He was shot dead on the spot. A few steps farther up the street, Senior Thomas...
...pleased was the Pakistani government with the new reactor that last week it gave Stone the staggering commission to design its new capital at Islamabad. Working with a budget approaching $100 million, Stone will design five government structures, including the presidential residence, in the new capital's 50-block central core...
First into the field was Chicago-based Inland Steel, the nation's seventh-ranking producer, whose Chairman Joseph Block, 63, was a Kennedy Administration hero for his 1962 part in upholding the guideposts principle. That was when President Kennedy went on television to denounce American steel-men-most particularly U.S. Steel's Roger Blough-as a band of economic bandits for having raised prices in violation of the guideposts. At that time Block refused to go along with the industry in proclaiming a price rise. A price hike was "untimely," according to Block, and Inland would keep prices...
Overworked and Fallacious. Block has long since wearied of the fact that the guideposts hampered both management and labor, and appeared to apply more to some industries than to others. "The thing that gripes me," he said last week, "is the overworked and fallacious idea that steel is the key. Steel and a few other so-called basic industries are expected to adhere rigidly to the prevailing prices while thousands of others, many concerned with such essential elements of the cost of living as food, clothing and shelter, go their merry way and raise prices at will...
...protesters being subpoenaed included: four members of the Vietnam Day Committee in Berkeley, a member of SDS who helped organize the attempt to block troop trains, a faculty advisor to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, the Chairman of the VDC anti-draft committee, and two others who have been involved in sending medical supplies to North Vietnam...