Word: roadblocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high up in the underworld. His curiosity pricked by the procession of strange Cadillacs and Imperials, an alert state cop called agents of the Treasury Department's Alcohol Tax Unit in Albany. Surrounding the 53-acre estate, policemen halted 63 carefully tailored men-some at a roadblock, others fleeing through dense woods-and asked them who they were, where they came from and why they had come to Apalachin. After questioning, all were released...
...saying, in a letter to Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, the President aligned himself with Humphrey's persistent effort to remove a major roadblock in the U.S. relationship with the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The roadblock: the so-called Connally Amendment of 1946, under which the U.S. reserves the right to bypass the World Court on any dispute that it considers "essentially domestic...
Vanishing Files. One potentially formidable roadblock to Jimmy Hoffa's plans is a three-member Board of Monitors, set up in early 1958 by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts to watch over Teamster affairs...
...tough-guy Actor Broderick Crawford, arrived in London on vacation, startled newshounds by disclosing that he no longer touches a steering wheel. Patrolman Crawford explained: "On California's coast highway, one time, I got my Jaguar XK-140 up to 120 m.p.h. before I was stopped at a roadblock. Ever since, it's become a game with police officers to pick me up. Now I have a chauffeur...
Drafted into a road race for glamorous types who sped for publicity from Rome to Sicily, bosomy Cinemactress Anita Ekberg teamed up with willing Italian Cinemactor Antonio Gerini, set forth in her blue Lancia Flaminia roadster. In the southern town of Castrovillari, the couple tooled abreast of a human roadblock-a group of Anita's male partisans, who screamed, pounded on the car and tried to touch her in order to make sure that she was real. Rattled Driver Gerini tried to bulldoze his way through the idolaters, succeeded in setting off a stampede, gently bowling over a half...