Word: adjournment
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...Miami Beach, a Democratic state senator began raising some dust back home. Senator Hugh M. Burns, president pro tem of the California senate and Acting Governor in the absence of the top two executive officers, invoked an obscure article of the state constitution and abruptly ordered the legislature to adjourn...
...stricter gun laws. In the Senate Judiciary Committee, a coalition of conservative Midwesterners and Southerners, ramrodded by South Carolina's Republican Strom Thurmond, riddled Joseph Tydings' gun-control bill with escape-clause amendments, leaving little hope for enactment of a meaningful law by a Senate racing to adjourn by Aug. 3. In the House, Veteran Emanuel Celler, a doughty proponent of stiff gun laws, concluded sadly that he lacked votes to overcome a House Rules Committee roadblock. Though Celler won support for a measure banning interstate mailorder sales of rifles, shotguns and ammunition, he had to compromise...
...Abernathy gave in. His purposely vague demands suddenly firmed up. His 49 demands turned out to be mainly uncreative housing and welfare proposals already offered by the Johnson Administration. And the target of the SCLC demands was a reactionary Congress that was about to adjourn...
Though Congress is not expected to adjourn until mid-December, much of the legislation that Lyndon Johnson regards as vital already seems destined for delay until 1968. Most important of the bogged-down bills is the President's proposal for a 10% tax surcharge and, in the election-year atmosphere of the second session, the bill seems likely once again to provoke a deadlock over spending and taxes. "We are doing nothing," Johnson conceded last week. "We are at a standstill...
...party may adjourn to the gaudy strip of nightclubs outside the base. Or there is always the officers' club, where one of the favorite drinks is a MIG-21, a paralyzing concoction consisting of three jiggers of Scotch and one jigger of Drambuie on the rocks. Some base areas have their own bowling alleys, miniature-golf courses and radio stations that broadcast American pop music. Between their briefings, missions and postflight critiques, however, many pilots are often too busy or too tired to care much about recreation. The schedule is so hectic, in fact, that the Ubon officers...