Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the State Department was threatening to cut its foreign aid allotment to Spain, Madrid's Ambassador Antonio Garrigues appealed to Catholic Congressmen he had cultivated at luncheons and dinners, persuaded them to help block...
...million with the Soviet Union and $213 million with East Germany); no one can guess accurately how much more private trade went on. Though some German industrialists were anxious for the government to guarantee long-term credits, Chancellor Ludwig Erhard ruled out the idea as long as the Soviets block German reunification. Said Erhard: "Such credits would strengthen the Soviet position, so that its willingness to negotiate would be weakened...
With trailing cables and color cameras, NBC-TV traipsed through the Chicago apartment of Inland Steel Vice President Leigh Block, 58, last summer to film his celebrated art collection, which ranges from ancient Chinese to modern French. It was all for a January program on "The Art of Collecting," but then he discovered that the show would have commercials (Humble Oil) as well as culture. "If I had known in advance that it was going to be sponsored, I would not have permitted them to film," blocked Block. With that, he refused to sign a release unless NBC promised...
...main block to fruitful negotiations is the Russians' insistence that settlement of the German question comes first," Kaysen said; "and here their ideas and ours are just too far apart...
...next architect to catch Griswold's eye was the late Eero Saarinen, Yale '34. Commissioned to do simply a hockey rink, Saarinen achieved a daring structure whose wooden roof is slung from a single humpbacked reinforced concrete spine, so that inside there are no pillars to block the view. Saarinen spent far more than the money that had been budgeted for the project, but the hockey rink so pleased critics and trustees alike that Saarinen subsequently was put to drawing up a master development plan for Yale. Along the line he won a commission close...