Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a shaky first quarter, Harvard controlled the ball and got off a number of shots on the Lion net. Goalie Jon Newman stopped them all, but rarely did he have to use any sleight-of-hand to block a shot...
...surprised if the line enjoys a good day against Roberts. If Malmstrom and Jensen are out, the Lion backfield is reduced almost to nil. The top fullback after Jensen, Bob Klingensmith, stands all of 5 ft., 7 in., and weighs 165. He may be able to block people like 240-pound Joe Hurek, but then again...
...fact, a lot is happening. Some 260,000 General Motors workers are on strike. A national dockworkers' strike has been postponed because President Johnson invoked the Taft-Hartley Act. Inland Steel Corp. Chairman Joe Block, the man who broke away from other steelmakers to support John Kennedy during the steel hassle in 1962, was making noises about a price hike (see U.S. BUSINESS). In South Viet Nam, the political and military situation was such that by November there might not be any pieces left for the U.S. to pick up. Secretary of State Dean Rusk last week predicted that...
...speaker was not U.S. Steel's Roger Blough, from whom the words would have seemed familiar, or any of the other usual spokesmen for the steel industry. It was Joseph L. Block, chairman of Chicago's Inland Steel and the man who, at President Kennedy's bidding, held the price line in 1962, thus forcing his colleagues to rescind their controversial price hikes...
...Block's statement was a clear indication that some sort of overall steel-price increase is in the offing. It came after months of similar rumblings. Roger Blough first broke a long silence on the subject last July by stating flatly that prices are "not as high as they should be." Next, Bethlehem's Chairman Edmund F. Martin expressed dissatisfaction with the earnings of the second-biggest steel firm and planted a broad hint: "We are still looking at the price situation...