Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, concentrated in the U.S., the old British Commonwealth and Western Europe. In the nature of things, none is perfect, and some are deeply troubled. None achieved democracy quickly, easily, or as the gift of any master. Nobles had to bend to kings, kings had to die on the block, and a middle class had to rise from turmoil before the stubborn will to freedom finally took concrete shape in constitutions, parliaments and electorates...
...high of $77,500). Bonnard's opalescent bath peekaboo at his wife, La Glace Haute, went to the Carnegie Institute for $155,000 (v. $101,000). When Degas' Repetition de Ballet, a pastel and gouache painting considered the high point of the evening, came up on the block, it was greeted like a masterful pas de deux. The winning bidder, Dealer Stephen Hahn, did not even make a move until the price was $360-000, then calmly kept the pressure up until he had it for an unknown client at the record price...
...moment for sentiment came with Lot 77, the debut on the block of that late, great Sunday painter Sir Winston Churchill. The painting, a pleasant 1938 canal scene that had been owned by Churchill's former son-in-law, British Comedian Vic Oliver, bravely bubbled up to $26,000. Its new proud possessor is Joyce Hall of Hallmark greeting cards, who intends to exhibit the oil at the New York World Fair...
Some ecumenists fear also that it may be even harder to resolve the economic problem of merging church properties and ecclesiastical funds than it is to settle doctrinal disputes of primary interest to theologians. This down-to-earth secular issue may well prove the ultimate stumbling block for the diffident, well-organized Methodists, who are three times more numerous than any other church involved in the consultation, and who seem more interested in cementing ties of friendship within world Methodism. Bishop F. Gerald Ensley of Columbus, Ohio, warned that his church "already has its hands full" negotiating its own merger...
...planes participating in the test carry electronic transponders that send back a coded signal along with their radar echoes. A computer built into the intricate electronic system provides information for a luminous square of letters and numerals that appears on the scope beside the blip. Called an "alphanumeric data block," it identifies the airplane and gives its altitude, which the transponder gets automatically from the plane's altimeter and sends along to a receiver on the ground...