Word: roadblockers
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...Governor Adlai Stevenson (who handily won renomination last week) was still trying to make up his mind as to whether he would be a presidential candidate. But he had promised to "clarify" his position some time this week. If the clarification meant yes, Stevenson would become the first real roadblock between Kefauver and the Democratic nomination...
...main gate, three startled marine guards jumped for safety as the getaway car shot through at 60 m.p.h. They hauled out their .45s, but the pieces were empty; the clips were in their belts (base regulations to avoid accidents). The police telephoned ahead to set up a roadblock. They were seconds too late; the green Oldsmobile got away. A few minutes later, a patrolman answered a fire alarm on a back road five miles from the base. It was the Oldsmobile, abandoned and burning. But when he tried to report it, his two-way radio wouldn't work...
...years, the progressive-minded pedagogues of Canada had been steadily gaining ground in Ontario's public schools. They had eliminated high-school entrance examinations, introduced a new sort of report card that did away with traditional marks. But last week the pedagogues ran into a formidable roadblock-thrown up by no less an organization than the influential (5,000 members) Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation itself...
...next morning for the conference, Ridgway wished them luck. At the Communist check point north of the Imjin River, armed Red guards told the convoy commander that it could not pass. There was a wary and polite argument. The man who pretended to be in charge of the Red roadblock was a nervous young North Korean lieutenant. The man actually in charge was a small, pock-marked Chinese. As the dispute waxed hotter, the Chinese coached the young North Korean more & more openly...
...started when Harry Truman picked Richardson to head the Subversive Activities Control Board. That aroused the Senate's one-man roadblock, Nevada's testy Pat McCarran, chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee. McCarran would not even permit a hearing on whether Congress should confirm Richardson and the four other board appointees, because McCarran wanted to handle loyalty himself. Last week Richardson quit, giving as his reason a critical surgical operation ordered by his doctors. Then...