Word: adjourns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...subcommittee hearings will likely adjourn later this month. A majority of the Senators clearly would like to find a middle way between the SEC charges and the industry defenses. Yet the first week's round, by general consensus, went to the SEC. This sense was perhaps best expressed by a subcommittee staffer overheard talking on the telephone to SEC Chairman Cohen. "The more these mutual-funds guys talk," he said, "the better off you are. So let the industry hang itself...
Come fall, the teeny-boppers will go back to high school, the San Franciscans will return to Haight-Ashbury, the Diggers will entrench themselves in utopian flats, and the hippie boulevardiers who remain will adjourn to the Bick...
...none of the resolutions receives a clear majority after two ballots, the meeting will adjourn without an official policy. In an effort to avoid such a failure, club officers have decided to permit two amendments from the floor on each resolution. The procedure is intended to render any final resolution amenable to the greatest number of members...