Word: attending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ervin walks through the Capitol these days, tourists poke each other delightedly: "Look, it's him." Last week the Senator had his four grandchildren in town to attend the hearings. One evening he took them out to dinner at a restaurant on Capitol Hill and everywhere along the way he was stopped by people who wanted to shake his hand. A fundamentally shy man, Ervin is both pleased and embarrassed by all the attention. Said twelve-year-old Bobby Ervin, establishing that a talent for home-grown simile runs in the family...
...interested in how Chinese Universities handled students from low-income families. They provided the closest thing to 'Let's go China' for the many there wishing to go. On the whole the reasons for going to A.C. were varied: there were those whose vacation schedules permit them to attend, some had come before (15-20 per cent) and enjoyed their stay, some had professional interests, others wished to escape their family responsibilities for a few days in peace and quiet pursuing a subject that interested them...
Since libraries and museums are the major educational resources available to those who cannot attend lectures, programs could be developed to permit autodidactic pursuit of new intellectual interests. Reading lists, tapings of General Education lectures are some of the methods readily available for an expansion of the present offerings of continuing education but as of today, the present sturcture of the AHA program rests primarily on an appeal to nostalgia; its biggest pull is exerted on those with means, those who seek to recapture a past embedded in brick...
WHITE House non-cooperation has stifled the hearings to some degree, but there is plenty to go around without Mr. Nixon's cooperation. The hearings are indeed history in the making--and it is quite an experience to attend a session of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities...
Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, who did not attend the cocktail meeting, recalls the President's telling him recently on a flight aboard Air Force One: "People can say what they want about me, but one thing they can't say. Stupid I'm not. If I had caught any of these people involved with these goings-on, I'd have fired their asses the hell out of there...