Word: adjourns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thursday evening Lyndon staged a "Salute to Congress," his appreciation of the most productive session in its history. As it turned out, the House was too busy producing to adjourn in time, so that the curtain was 1½ hours late, and the State Department auditorium only one-fourth filled-most audibly with fuming congressional wives...
Last week, asked on TV when he thought Congress would adjourn, Ev replied: "I could say, 'Get your Thanksgiving turkey now,' or 'Buy the trimmings for your Christmas tree.' We have some vitality and if 14(b) is going to be dished up, I can assure you that there is going to be an extended discussion." In his office are some 3,000 newspaper editorials opposing repeal, and, says Ev, "every one will be read into the Congressional Record." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has planned no round-the-clock, filibuster-busting sessions. "At some point...
...Congress is supposed to adjourn by July 31. This year the date went by almost unnoticed-at least by Lyndon Johnson, who knows where golden eggs come from. Still the weary lawmakers are at work, cranking out major bills at a rate rarely matched in U.S. history. And if L.B.J. insists on repaying his campaign debt to labor by trying to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act's right-to-work provision (14-b) this session, they may not get away, in Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's words, "until the snow flies"-and without having repealed...
...labeled not only square but uncultured. For inspirational purposes, such hip artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers and Andy Warhol occasionally paint while listening to rock 'n' roll music. Explains Warhol: "It makes me mindless, and I paint better." After gallery openings in Manhattan, the black-tie gatherings often adjourn to a discotheque...
...their vote, but the majority feared that in such a showdown, Russia would walk out and wreck the organization; thus the small nations insisted on preventing a showdown-which meant no open voting. In the end, the U.S. backed away from its tough stand and allowed the Assembly to adjourn without forcing the issue...