Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lack of funds is the major stumbling block in "the nation's number one domestic problem," he said. The recent elevation of an urban affairs department to Cabinet status will be no more than a gesture unless programs are established that make funds available to the cities, he added...
...Block will remain-with a major difference. "Operating the nightclubs is perfectly legal," says Gelston, "and there is no intention of closing them down. But we are going to close down the illegal operations that go on-soliciting, gambling and narcotics peddling. I'll give the Block fair warning. If they won't listen, I want them raided...
Most Baltimoreans, who regard their Casbah as a civic asset, were relieved that it would not disappear entirely. "A well-planned city should cater to all sorts of impulses," City Planner David A. Wallace once noted. "Though the Block's appeal is to the saucier impulses, it adds a very needed liveliness which many cities lack. Baltimore should be grateful...
...Block Island, cut off by the gale, added twelve of a possible 40. This week make-up clinics are expected to catch several thousand more. The total will be enough to protect the state against widespread measles epidemics, though there may still be isolated cases. Health officers will then have to see to it that the 18,000 babies born annually are vaccinated soon after they are a year...
Child Actor. Like Alkan, Lewenthal has known his share of the frustrations of the creative life. Raised in Hollywood by his divorced mother (who was born in Paris just a block away from Alkan's home), he appeared as a bit actor in several Jackie Cooper films, attended a professional school "for spoiled movie brats." At 20, with prize money he won in piano competitions, he went to Manhattan to study with Olga Samaroff Stokowski, Leopold's first wife and a former pupil of Elie's, the fellow with the apes and the cockatoos. After his debut...