Word: adjourns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gard Wiggins, Administrative Vice-President, said that he doubted that Sert would be able to report to the President and Fellows at their next meeting, June 5. The Corporation will meet briefly Commencement week and then adjourn for the summer...
...General Assembly to decide whether to give him the Congo's seat over the violent objections of his prime foe-erratic, mischief-making Patrice Lumumba. When the matter finally came up before the Assembly last week, Ghana led the fight for Lumumba, proposed a motion to adjourn the debate without even considering Kasavubu's case...
...partial toward "supporters of the colonialists," and Khrushchev again took off his shoe and thumped his desk with it. To restore order, President Boland pounded his gavel until it broke. "Because of the scene you have just witnessed," Boland coldly told the delegates, "I think the Assembly had better adjourn." It was the most disorderly session in U.N. history, and the first ever to end in mid-speech...
...moments more, pudgy Nikita Khrushchev ranted on. Then he stalked out of the Assembly, answering the applause of the Communist claque by applauding himself as he went. Behind him, he left the dazed Assembly to adjourn for the weekend...
...delegates picked up their papers to adjourn for the weekend, news came from the room next door, where the Big Three were meeting on nuclear test bans. Russia's Semyon Tsarapkin, asking for a special Saturday session for the announcement, said the Soviet Union was willing to sign a treaty proposed last month by President Eisenhower banning all nuclear tests except those underground experiments too small to be easily detected-if a "voluntary" moratorium without controls was accepted on subterranean tests. It was a clever move, for though the U.S. has long opposed any test ban that cannot...