Word: bloc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beat this afternoon. Sophomore Mike Koerner, the Crimson's undefeated top man. must be the one to do it. The battle will be an interesting one to watch. but the outcome of the meet will hinge on whether Penn's long distance team can break Harvard's scoring bloc during the middle third of the race...
Rent control is a major issue in the Council campaign, and students who live off-campus are expected to hold a crucial bloc of votes on November 4. Last summer the Council defeated a rent control bill by a 5-4 vote...
...What is more, the barriers between Bulgarians and bourgeois foreigners are beginning to tumble. As the most repressive and Sovietized state in the East bloc, Bulgaria is considered to be the only truly "safe" vacationland for Soviet and East German citizens, who are rarely allowed to travel to the West. At the Golden Sands and other Black Sea resorts, these tourists are kept segregated in hotels with names like Moskva and Berlin. But such isolation has proved ineffective, partly because hotels for Easterners and Westerners are often identical. One night this summer, an English tourist, shnoggered on the delicious...
...Eastern Europe, the immediate effect of the invasion has been to slow down or snuff out entirely all but the most cautious experiments in economic reform -at least for the time being. Outside the Soviet bloc, the invasion has accelerated the fragmentation of Communist parties into rival factions, a process begun with the outbreak of the Sino-Soviet schism of the early 1960s. It also greatly weakened Moscow's claim to be the sole rightful interpreter of the true path of Communism...
...Illinois, La Cosa Nostra exerts major influence in a dozen Chicago wards and dictates the votes of as many as 15 state legislators. Known as the West Side Bloc, a newspaper euphemism to avoid libel suits, the Mob opposes anticrime bills in the state legislature, forces gangsters onto the payroll of Mayor Richard Daley's Chicago machine, and corrupts the city police department. Salvatore ("Momo") Giancana may be hiding in Mexico, but his stand-ins, Tony ("Big Tuna") Accardo and Paul ("The Waiter") DeLucia still pack influence. Example: When a Justice Department report charged 29 Chicago policemen with being grafters...