Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountain flowers are purple underfoot. Yellow lichens and red moss brighten in the morning sun, and the heavy granite block retaining wall of the caravan road to Natu Pass curves in gentle arcs up to the ridge line that forms a natural border between Sikkim and Tibet. Just over the top of this ridge wait some 3,000 Red Chinese troops, part of the 17,000-man Chinese 2nd Division headquartered at Yatung. Other Chinese battalions guard Jelep Pass and the smaller passes into Sikkim. The tough Chinese troops at Natu, whom we had come up to see, have...
...closer look," said the Indian officer, clambering down to the road. "If the Chinkos open fire, get down and we'll take care of the rest." Our group of four moved forward, flanked by three jawans with automatic rifles and covered by others in the granite-block fortifications behind us. Around a curve we came on a group of Red Chinese standing in front of a tablet commemorating Nehru's visit here in 1958. As anyone could see, the marker is clearly on the Indian side of the border...
...Onassis out, and he shuns expropriation; as unbefitting the genteel nature of his establishment. Nonetheless, at the company's annual meeting last week, a Swiss lawyer known to be close to the palace launched an attack that suggested a Royal Solution. Onassis' control of such a large block of stock, argued the lawyer, is illegal under the company's charter, which limits individual shareholders to 10,000 apiece. Onassis nominally complies with this by holding most of his stock in the names of 48 Panamanian shipping companies, but Rainier may be able to find a judge...
First, he said, "the movement must go into politics. The potential political power of the Negro is great not only in the South, but also in the North where the Negro population is constantly increasing. We must set up block-by-block organizations all over the ghetto...
There are a lot of children on my block. When they wake me up in the morning it sounds as if there must be a million of them. At evening in the summer, when the sun goes down on these rooftops, they are all over the sidewalks. On the steps of my house they sit and study small objects (bottle-tops, bent-in beer-cans) with an atomic scientist's endless concentration and precision. I stop to take a look...