Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen held to his promise to vote both for cloture and for the Fortas appointment, but his troops remained recalcitrant, still bitter that he had agreed with the President to support Fortas before consulting them. L.B.J., aware that a refusal on Fortas would also block his nomination of Old Friend Homer Thornberry to Fortas' putatively vacant Associate Justice seat, could only whistle down the wind. "We shouldn't allow a little group to prevent the majority from expressing its viewpoint," he said. That, so far, is precisely what has happened...
After Huie denounced Wallace on a lecture tour in 1964, the Governor went on television to tongue-lash the writer. Getting the message, racists made abusive phone calls. For four nights, a procession of cars drove slowly around his block while Huie stood by the window with his riot gun. In July, when a cross was burned on his lawn, he wired Governor Albert Brewer, pointing out that since Wallace is given state protection, his enemies should have it too. Brewer agreed to give him what he wanted, and now the local police provide frequent patrolling...
...revive it. On the road, 200 Ibs. of ice had to be carried to cool the battery. Says M.I.T.'s Jim Martin: "It was like driving an iceberg." Then, at Victorville, Calif., the car's engine idled at twice its normal r.p.m.s, blew up on its block, and had to be towed 130 miles to the Pasadena finish line. It got there a full 37 hours before Caltech's Volkswagen bus limped into Cambridge. But the Caltech team had made the trip with fewer penalties. As a result, the adjusted finishing time was 210 hours...
...specialist in Central American affairs. He was alone in the rear seat of his chauffeured Cadillac as the big sedan moved north along Avenida la Reforma. A small green Toyota suddenly pulled in front and forced Mein's car to the curb. A red Buick darted up to block the embassy car from behind. Two men in green fatigues got out of the Toyota and ordered Mein from his car at the point of a submachine gun. He stepped out, then broke and ran. There was a shout: "Kill him! Kill him!" The submachine gunner squeezed off a burst...
...prisoners of the Marine brig at Danang, who rioted briefly three weeks ago. They had complained of cold food, excessive discipline, and long delays before trial. When the brig commander, Lieut. Colonel Joseph Gambardella, promised to look into their complaints, they calmed down and cleared up their cell block; and except for a brief flare-up when 40 parolees and trusties were moved out, that was the end of it. The prisoners at L.B.J. must face a harsher punishment. Since the administration building and its files were burned, the men will have to sweat it out in the stockade regardless...