Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis went into its eighth week, the stumbling block was still Caamaño, whose 3,000 well-armed rebels have fortified their square mile of downtown Santo Domingo into a miniature Stalingrad. If anything, Caamaño was noisier than before. "Those who believe that time can weaken us are mistaken," he stormed in one movie-house speech. Up went the shouts: "Assassins!" "Traitors!" "Out with the Yanquis!" "If necessary," continued Caamaño, "we will write a page that our people will never forget...
...began last week in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel-baseball's first "free agent" draft, which, in effect, stripped away the bargaining rights of the country's young hopefuls and put them on the block like so many sides of beef. To hear some of the clubs talk, it was the greatest boon to baseball since Happy Chandler returned to politics. "I've been pushing for this thing for 20 years," crowed the Cleveland Indians' vice president, Gabe Paul...
...newest monument to the New Harvard, the Roy E. Larsen Hall at the Ed School, received its first callers yesterday. A group of old Cambridge ladies, a priest, and a few merely curious toured its nine floors of light-controlled, heat-regulated bare cinder block halls and unfurnished beige rooms. The building, they decided, backed soul...
...necessary student concession to balance the grant of power they were to receive. But it was actually the Faculty directors who were using the fluid situation to consolidate their own influence. As before, they could ask the Faculty committee to veto any student proposal they coudn't themselves block. But now they could also affect the HDC's plans from the outset, either by argument, or by suggesting that the Faculty committee would veto a proposal...
...arduous task ahead will be to restore political and economic stability to the hate-riven, impoverished nation. While the Administration so far has managed to block a regime that it does not want, it has yet to win the kind of government it wants. The dilemma, despite Johnson's oft-stated aim to establish "a broad-based" government, is that: 1) there are no centrist parties of any strength, and 2) the individual hatreds of possible leaders are hard to reconcile...