Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national Communist parties. At its apex perch Mao and his top comrades in a seven-member Politburo Standing Committee; beneath them are a twelve-member Politburo, then 94 Central Committeemen. From there the party descends into tens of thousands of local branches whose vigilance reaches into every city block and every village hut. This pervasive network controls all facets of existence, pulls young and old into the web of ideological influence and ensures that no "foreign" political concept can take root...
...school board tired of Willis last summer, informally voted 7 to 4 not to renew his contract, compromised on his guarantee to quit when he reaches 65 next December. Willis faced not only a hostile board but also 48 top Chicago businessmen-including Inland Steel's Joseph L. Block, Foote, Cone & Belding's Fairfax Cone, and Chicago & North Western's Ben Heineman-who last July urged selection of a new man and a policy of "equal access to our schools by all races...
...Hobbs, Mrs. B. told Sylvia, "Now I'm going to brand you." A three-inch sewing needle was heated with matches and, Hobbs said, "Gertie started putting words on her, but she got sick and told me to finish it." Etched in two tiers of inch-high block letters across Sylvia's lower abdomen, the words said: "I'm a prostitute and proud of it." Two days later, Hobbs added, he used the hooked end of a 2-ft.-long anchor bolt that had been heated with burning newspapers to brand the numeral 3 on Sylvia...
Rallying around a City gartage truck, members of Community Litter Elimination Action Now (CLEAN), lined up outside the Union in preparation for their anti-trash parade last weekend. Sweeping down a ten-block area around Central Square, the CLEAN team, Cambridge's own white tornado, advertised the start of "Cleanup Week...
...parade will tramp down Mass Ave. until it nears Central Square, when the marchers will drop their placards for brooms and begin sweeping a ten-block area. Mr. Dirt, covered in newspapers, will be swept into the truck with the rest of the trash as the march approaches its goal, City Hall, where the clean-up will stop...