Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Head-Hunting. In New York, shielded by swarms of local cops and Secret Service men,* Nixon divided his time between temporary headquarters on the 39th floor of the elegant Hotel Pierre (the same floor that Aristotle Onassis often occupied) and his apartment a block and a half up Fifth Avenue. He conducted almost continuous staff meetings, many of them devoted to the talent search for Cabinet members and the 2,200 or so other officials who will make up the core of his Administration...
Prices received for tickets continued to rise. A member of the Harvard football team said that teammates had sold one block of four tickets for $320. Several Final Clubs acting as clearing-houses in the transactions are offering sellers as much as $50 each for senior tickets. Students who placed an advertisement in the CRIMSON offering tickets for sale received $60 for a pair of tickets on the ten-yard line...
...lost 10,000 sales, but it didn't put me out of business. I was doing about 60,000 at the time. It dropped to about 50,000. I had about 200 stores in South Boton and they started putting the papers under the counter. Especially stores on the block of a church...
...just about as hard to block as a refrigerator. He moves laterally with his hands out in front of him, preventing linemen from getting to his body. He hits with strength far beyond his size, and even the biggest backs are driven back. He has been a standout from his first starting assignment against Penn when he tied defensive stalwarts John Emery and John Cramer for the highest number of tackles. Farneti's agility and strength won him the freshman heavyweight boxing title last year...
Brown's only score came on a penalty play in the first half. Harvard goalie Wayne Quasha batted away the free shot, but was unable to block the ball a second time, as the Brown opponent rushed up to kick the rebound...