Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stumbling block to many Northerners was the bill's Title 4, which was originally intended to outlaw racial discrimination in the sale and rental of all housing. To gain support from hesitant Congressmen, Administration strategists agreed to amendments in the Judiciary Committee that would exclude owner-occupied dwellings of four units or fewer-more than 60% of the nation's residential housing. Though still not enough of a concession for many of the bill's opponents, it was far too much for militant civil rights supporters...
...founder and chairman of Jaguar Cars Ltd., has always been one of Britain's most fiercely independent automakers. Known around his Coventry headquarters as the "Headmaster" for his autocratic rule, he has scoffed at the industry-wide merger trend, maintained that Jaguar would not go on the block "in my lifetime." Last week he made a surprising U-turn: after two years of quiet negotiations, Sir William and British Motor Corp. Chairman Sir George Harriman announced that B.M.C. will buy out Jaguar in a $51 million stock transfer deal...
...which means that it will receive dozens of productions at universities across the country before opening in New York. The Tufts Summer Theatre rendering is visually--even atmospherically--a fine one. Sklar's play seems ideally suited to the arena theatre, and director Marston Balch obviously knows how to block a 360-degree production; he has been doing it for years...
Public and press are outspokenly on their side, and last week the prestigious French Conseil de L'Ordre Na tional des Médecins was showing signs of bending to popular pressure. Though the Conseil had first threatened to block the whole operation, it now seems willing to give the SOS doctors official sanction as a registered group. To pleased Parisians, that meant that emergency night medical aid would remain just a phone call away...
...then he sets aside office, finds himself imprisoned in the Tower and finally lays his head upon the executioner's block. The reasons are, of course, familiar--Henry VIII wished to marry Anne, the Pope would not agree with Henry that the royal marriage to Catherine was void; unable to put aside Catherine with the consent of the Pope, Henry put aside the Pope. More would not swear to the act of Succession, for it asserted the lawfulness of the King's acts--thus to the Tower. Falsely convicted of open denial of the King's supremacy over the Church...