Word: roadblock
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...have about come to the conclusion that the Great Society's principal roadblock is not lack of money, means or know-how, but paucity of will and desire. At local levels, too many people just don't give a damn...
...dialogue, but only very few have taken the big plunge toward union." One reason for this has been the realization that "there can be no unity until there has been sweeping church renewal"-and traditional structures are "so tough and unbending that renewal often gets stuck halfway." Still another roadblock to progress is that "the ecumenical message has not yet penetrated to grassroots level in the parishes. We have too many officers and not enough soldiers...
Only one major roadblock has prevented Detroit's auto engineers from turning their nostalgic dreams of an electric car into a practical scheme: lack of a battery with the capacity and durability to power a modern automo bile. Now that obstacle may have been removed. Ford Motor Co. scientists have demonstrated a miniature version of a new battery that promises to put the company in the electric-car business within the next ten years...
Burial of the 1966 civil rights bill in Washington last week was a disappointing defeat for civil libertarians. But beyond that setback there was some consolation. For while congressional desire to ban discrimination in private housing is at present clearly lacking, congressional authority grows clearer and clearer. The legal roadblock has been all but removed by the Supreme Court's recently manifested willingness to let Congress give its own broad constitutional interpretation to the 14th Amendment guarantee that no state shall "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...
J.F.K. House. In another ugly confrontation, at a police and National Guard roadblock, 21 bullets were sprayed into a car driven by a Negro named Henry Townes, 22. Townes's 16-year-old wife, their seven-month-old baby and her four-year-old son by a previous marriage were all wounded, and a National Guard captain was hit by a ricocheting bullet...