Word: agendas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be a "candid, rather private affair," consisting primarily of round-table discussions, according to Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics and a member of the University's delegation. While talk will center around the problems of disarmament, no specific agenda will be decided until the conferees reach Moscow, he said...
...instead protested the legal status of Nationalist China's seat on the Security Council, on the ground that the Nationalist China government no longer represents the Chinese. Since 1956, the General Assembly has rejected proposals to put the question of China's U.N. representation on its agenda, but by an increasingly narrow margin...
...main items on Kennedy's agenda is a sweeping reform of the regulatory agencies, which he believes are inefficient and filled with second-rate people. Few businessmen dispute that view. Last week, in one of his first moves, Kennedy appointed James M. Landis to work up a report and make recommendations in a month on all the regulatory agencies. Landis, 61, is a former dean of Harvard Law School, served as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission and as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. He is an old friend...
Representatives from 18 colleges and private schools in this area will meet with Boston officials this morning in the City Council chambers. They will discuss the rapidly worsening student parking problem. One proposal on the agenda calls for a ban of all student parking on city streets. Several representatives from the University will attend...
Whatever happened, Kennedy was a changed man on his return to the Senate in May 1955. He took his place as a leader among the Northern Democrats; his mind, as sharply honed as a barber's razor, turned to every major project on the agenda, and his eyes fastened on the White House. When Presidential Nominee Adlai Stevenson threw open the 1956 Democratic Convention for vice-presidential nominations, Kennedy plunged into a trial run. To his surprise, he came within a thin 38^ votes of defeating Tennessee's Estes Kefauver-corralling, along the way, a strong voting strength...