Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True to Form. In such a close fight, the outcome could hinge on the action of any cohesive block of Congressmen. Well aware of that, Manhattan's John Lindsay called a meeting of a group of Republican House liberal moderates who consider both Halleck and Ford too conservative, but presumably could swing a deal to support either in exchange for a bigger voice in party councils. Only ten members showed up, however-and, true to form, they could not agree on what to do about the Ford-Halleck contest. That left the matter just where it had been...
...comedy. But that is precisely what Christianity is, a divine comedy defined by Soren Kierkegaard as "the most humorous point of view in the history of the world." Such fundamental doctrines as the Resurrection, the Incarnation, the Holy Spirit, have always been an offense to cold reason-"a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles," as St. Paul put it. In fact, says Short, one literally has to become like a child to believe such things. "But again, this is precisely why Christ said, 'Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom...
Shallow Ditch. The tour was also grisly for the Germans, as they measured distances and angles of vision to determine whether defendants could have been heard and identified as claimed by their accusers. One grey-faced lawyer fled an inspection of the dungeons of Cell Block 11, crying "I can't stand it any longer!" Another lawyer became ill after visiting one of the gas chambers. All stood mutely at the edge of a shallow ditch where the Nazi SS troops had burned corpses on pyres when the crematoria were filled. Traces of ash and bone could still...
...m.p.h. faster than the fastest measured pitch in baseball. Even his backhand tops 90 m.p.h. "Stopping one of Hull's shots on the pads is like being slugged by a sledge hammer," says Toronto Goalie Johnny Bower, and when New York's Jacques Plante tried to block one of Hull's slap shots with his gloved hand, it numbed his arm all the way to the elbow. The research institute concluded that Hull (at 5 ft. 10½ in.. 194 Ibs.) is a "perfect muscular mesomorph"-which is more or less what his opponents have been...
...member of the Harvard Law School faculty and a Harvard research fellow have initiated a letter circulating among college faculty members in the Boston area to urge support for Mississippi's Freedom Democratic Party in its attempt to block the seating of five Congressmen-elect from Mississippi...