Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice of the U.S. A formal vote to, close off a filibuster will not come until this week, but it is foredoomed. Fortas' opponents, led by Michigan Republican Robert Griffin, have considerably more than enough votes to block cloture and keep the talkathon going until the Administration gives...
...with the most exciting save of the game late in the fourth quarter to preserve a Harvard shutout. Diving for a shot which hit the crossbar in the far corner of the goal. Sawhill managed to recover fast enough to come all the way back across the goal to block M.I.T.'s follow-up to the near corner...
...their way to the Supreme Court on behalf of 13 members of an Army postal unit and 83 logistics troopers at Fort Lee, Va., and 23 finance clerks at Fort Benning, Ga. At Fort Riley, Kans., soldiers belonging to a reserve warehousing unit hired a lawyer to try to block their departure to Viet Nam. A suit filed in Federal Court in Hawaii earlier this month has added a new twist. Lawyers for 257 soldiers of the 29th Infantry Brigade are also demanding $10,000 damages for each man as compensation for alleged illegal detention at arms...
Byars sees no reason to limit his multiperson garments to just four wearers. For the opening of his show, he induced several hundred New Yorkers to stick their heads through holes in a "mile-long" strip of fabric and parade in tandem around the block. "You see," he exulted. "We are changing the landscape of New York!" Inside another garment, titled 100 in an Airplane, he hoped that participants would strip to the buff and sit on the floor beneath the 100-ft.-long piece of pink silk shaped like an airplane. "Over clothed bodies," he explained, "silk makes...
...SUNSET BAR and Restaurant is located on a small street not far from what passes as a business district in Rockville Center, N.Y. A block or two away lies the local station of the Long Island Railroad where commuters come and go on their way to work in Manhattan. No one on an LIRR train ever sees the Sunset, for the trains move too fast for passengers to catch a glimpse of the small...