Word: adjournment
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...woes. In April, as a result of several shareholder suits, Merritt-Chapman & Scott agreed to slash Chairman Wolfson's annual compensations from last year's $525,-000 to $150,000. The settlement came unstuck when the SEC asked the New York State Supreme Court to adjourn the case temporarily. The Commission's lawyer said that it was completing an investigation that could have consider able bearing on the case. Court hear ings resume this week, and the SEC plans to return with what it calls "ma terial facts" concerning shareholder charges of improper activities by Wolfson...
Ardrey wants to adjourn the biological debate by accepting the territorial principle as a key to the understanding of man and as a solution to all his behavior problems. Why does the Russian collective farmer only listlessly till state soil? Because, says Ardrey, the dispossessed planarian worm lost his zest for life and slipped this attitude into the evolutionary stream untold millions of years...
...first leg of a trip to Israel to attend the dedication of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Forest near Jerusalem. Happy was keeping busy sightseeing with Nelson Jr. and her brood of four by her first marriage, while she waited for the New York legislature to adjourn so Daddy could join them all on a month-long European vacation...
...Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will elect new members -- both undergraduate and honorary--and new officers at 9:30 a.m. today, and then adjourn to the literary exercises at 11 a.m. in Sanders Theatre...
...Little Bit Sensitive. The questioning continued. Could the President predict when Congress would adjourn? "I never have done that," said Johnson. "I came here 35 years ago, and the first thing I learned was never to predict when they would adjourn." Then, without any excuse, he resumed his little lecture to the press. He does "get a little bit sensitive," he said, when he sees presidential decisions reported that he never heard of. There was a U.P.I. item he had seen that very morning telling "how I eliminated the Redwood Forest bill from the State of the Union Message...