Word: adjourns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political cause celebre (an anti-Jackson cartoon implying frivolity in high places was titled "The Celeste-al Cabinet''). Four years later, the sensational Fanny Elssler, the great European ballerina, was so popular in Washington that Congress, unable to reach a quorum when she performed, was forced to adjourn so that the members could watch her dance...
...last week, as Tunisia's Mongi Slim rapped his olive-wood presidential gavel to adjourn the Assembly, the U.N. was probably in better shape than at any time since Hammarskjold's best days. Russia had scored virtually no gains in the Assembly, suffered some severe defeats. Most notable was Moscow's failure to seat Red China as a U.N. member and to impose its troika scheme for a three-man U.N. executive, which would have paralyzed the world body's operations...
...first time since the U.S. Congress and much-but not all-of the U.S. press had waterhosed him for attracting too much attention on Berlin's East-West line (TIME. Sept. 15). Gurgling angrily, he said: "I have noticed that the Congress had the good judgment to adjourn before I got back.'' The Senate, by his description, contained a number of "loud mouths" who had obviously become aware that "they're not fooling with Liberace. I can be very rough...
...Constitution specifies that "neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days...
After hearing Servatius. the three Israeli judges will adjourn the court to consider their verdict-which can hardly be anything but guilty. Prosecutor Hausner has made it clear that he will then ask for the death penalty. Eichmann can appeal his case to the Israeli Supreme Court and, failing there, can ask clemency of Israel's President Isaac...