Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kadar's U.N. delegates (though they actually take part in debates and vote). The final trace of U.N. disapproval disappeared recently when Secretary-General U Thant spent three days in Hungary and seven hours with Kadar himself. Even the U.S., unable to round up continued support to block Hungarian accreditation, will not oppose the official seating of Hungary's delegation at the next General Assembly session...
Girl Stalker. This lover of open spaces grew up within a block of one of the biggest urban open spaces in the U.S.?Chicago's Lake Michigan. "I can't remember when I didn't want to be an architect," says Pereira. As a boy, he was seldom without a sketchbook in his hand; at twelve, he had a part-time job as a sign painter. He worked his way through the University of Illinois painting scenery, illustrating menus and lecture notes for a duplicating company, picking up odd art jobs. He majored in architecture, minored in physics, bore...
...fire on such common practices as price fixing, market splitting or the domination of a nationwide market by sheer size. No longer; nowadays, antitrust frequently means antimerger. Many businessmen are confused and worried about two court decisions in the past year that have given the Government broad authority to block virtually any corporate merger that so much as threatens to lessen competition even on a local level. "The only way to avoid antitrust action nowadays," grumbles a leading Chicago lawyer, "is to have two companies so small that they don't even matter...
...which police can hold a suspect for 90 days without charge. (When the 90-day term comes to an end, some prisoners are being dutifully released, allowed to walk 100 yards, then rearrested for another three-month stretch.) A month after his arrest, Goldreich apparently got hold of cell-block keys, possibly with inside help, and freed three fellow prisoners-two anti-apartheid Asians, and a Jewish lawyer, Harold Wolpe, longtime defender of imprisoned leftists...
...cost about $3. But temptations abound. How exciting to make a pet of a toothy moray from Ceylon ($35), or a lion fish from the Red Sea ($35), who packs enough deadly poison in his spiny ugliness to kill a man. How exhilarating to be first kid on the block with a $400 trigger fish from Zanzibar...