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This unwritten rule, however, has been disregarded, and Yugoslavia is still a Security Council candidate. After 29 ballots, the deadlock continues, no compromise candidate has appeared and the Assembly's President is gravely concerned. The Assembly is scheduled to adjourn next week, and the terms of the present non-permanent Council members expire December 31. If one seat remains unfilled, "serious juridical obstacles" might arise. At the next voting, the President will probably call for continuous balloting until the required two-thirds majority supports one candidate...
...giving her the flat-broke treatment, the U.T. date will let her know you really care; if you've shown her Boston's bright spots the previous time, it'll show her you're adaptable, not addicted to splendor, and not afraid she is. After the U.T., you adjourn to a sofa or car to see whether she was bluffing when she kissed you goodnight...
Delayed by Housing. Despite its stumbling, the Congress might have been able to adjourn last week had it not been for differences between the House and the Senate on the issue of public housing. Early in June the Senate passed a bill calling for up to 135,000 public housing starts during each of the next four years. Late last week the House finally got around to acting; it passed a bill that in effect offered no public housing at all. The two versions went to a House-Senate conference committee, which went to work down in the old Supreme...
Before it could adjourn, the Congress had to receive and act upon a report from the conference committee-and the committee was deadlocked. (Said New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives: "We didn't come within gunshot of each other.") That being the case, there was nothing to do but stay in Washington over the weekend and try again this week...
With half a dozen major legislative items, e.g., the highway construction and public-housing programs, still hanging fire, the leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives gave up in their efforts to adjourn by the end of July, last week began aiming for Aug. 6. But among the rank and file there was a sure sign that virulent adjournment fever, symptomized by extreme irritability, had set in; two of the members came to blows...