Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unacceptable Condition. In addition, Mansfield had some conditions of his own, which he termed "obviously essential corollaries": 1) there must be an amnesty for everyone on both sides as "an essential block to an extension of the barbarism and atrocities of the struggle into the subsequent peace and, indeed, as an essential part of that peace," and 2) both sides must be willing "to accept and abide by a cease-fire...
...brother console near by. Technicians at the console can zoom in their lenses for closeup shots of any single suspicious vehicle; on several occasions they have watched on television while a smashup or a breakdown occurs. Then they call a policeman and throw switches that change speed-limit signs, block ramps, and turn on big red X signs over the lane that is blocked...
...from sleep by Leonard Bernstein. Manhattan's mightiest piece of modern sculpture was wrestled into place pretty much the way marbles were muscled into place in Michelangelo's day. Grunting workmen wedged the huge metallic shapes onto rollers, eased them down wood beams, hoisted them upright with block and tackle. Meanwhile, the foreman from West Berlin's Hermann Noack foundry, which cast the behemoth bather, scrubbed down her metal flanks with a hand brush to remove the grime of travel...
When the marquee in front of the Brattle announces To Have and Have Not and the line doesn't stretch twice around the block by 8:30 for the 9:30 show, there's something very wrong. The lines have been rather short this summer...
...week, some 200 Negroes gathered around the firehouse, shouting, jeering and throwing rocks. They taunted the firemen by setting small piles of debris ablaze, hurled a Molotov cocktail onto the roof of a mobile classroom across the street. Heaving missiles and assaulting whites, the crowd spread over a twelve-block area before it was dispersed. Seven persons were injured, among them four policemen hit by bricks and bottles. Not Satisfied. Next morning the Fire Department suspended the fire-truck driver and the company's captain-and shifted a predominantly Negro company to the firehouse. But the disorders flared even...