Word: roadblocks
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...only highway leading away from the airport, 1,500 students squatted in a human roadblock. They had chosen well: a spot where the road curves and rises sharply as it emerges from an underpass. U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II landed at the airport in a green Marine H13 helicopter. Asked if he and Hagerty would take the helicopter or a car into Tokyo. MacArthur said, "What the hell, we will drive, of course...
...Roadblock. As Hagerty's Lockheed Super Constellation touched down from Okinawa, 30 minutes late, a wild melee broke out on the terrace between the right-wing and the left-wing toughs. Some 2,000 police surged forward to separate the combatants, while the sedate elders looked on in dismay. Ambassador MacArthur welcomed Hagerty and his companion. Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens; the three paused briefly for photographs and then hurried to the ambassador's official black Cadillac. It sped off, followed by two Fords carrying six U.S Secret Servicemen. Just nine days later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was scheduled...
Back at the sugar mill, the colonel hastily raised the alarm that Menderes had fled. U.S.-made F-100jet fighters took off from the nearby airbase, spotted the car speeding through the night. Outside Ku-tahya a roadblock was set up. The limousine jerked to a halt. "So you are going to arrest me," said Menderes. "Yes, sir," said an officer. Finance Minister Polatkan fainted...
...roll call of teen-agers are often banished between aahs, or missing between oohs, they do not grow oppressive. If Dick Van Dyke and Chita Rivera, as the love interest, never quite make love interesting, they often brighten it with glints of hate and vary it with an amusing roadblock to the altar-Dick's mother. Zestfully played by Kay Medford, she is a murderously possessive mamma forever jabbering of self-sacrifice, threatening suicide and pleading for a minimum in funerals: "Just wait till Mother's Day, wrap me in a flag, and dump me in the river...
...vote, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week postponed "to a later time" (translation: to a later session of Congress) any hopeful attempt to repeal the so-called Connally Reservation of 1946, a roadblock to effective U.S. use of the World Court for settling international disputes. Both President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon had sought the abolition as a step toward world rule of law. Secretary of State Christian Herter and Attorney General William P. Rogers took strong stands in testimony before the committee. The move to repeal was sponsored by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, had the support...