Word: availables
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efficiency, Belin's committee cut out several standing committees which, they argued, "served no useful purpose." Among the casualties was Vellucci's Committee on Roads and Bridges. At the next meeting, before a vote be taken on the revised rules, Vellucci's Committee suddenly reported out --but to no avail. In a five to vote, Vellucci lost his campaign the revised rules rejected...
...visit to London, she was told by High Commissioner Menon: "You will not give interviews to the press unless I or one of my staff is present. I am ambassador here, not you." Mme. Pandit protested to her brother about Menon's arrogance, but to no avail. "Krishna can be both charming and irritating," she says. "But it's about three-fourths of one and one-fourth the other...
...court. "The legal and moral responsibility of him who delivers the victim to his death," said the judges, "is, in our opinion, no smaller, and may even be greater than the liability of him who does the victim to death." Similarly, the judgment dismissed as "of no avail" Eichmann's plea that he had only acted on orders from his government. This could not exempt "from their personal criminal responsibility those who gave, and those who carried out the order...
...Harvard-Princeton series picked up again, Princeton increased its desire for equality in the Big Three relationship. Many times since 1934 the Tigers have tried to get Harvard and Yale to alternate final games with them, but to no avail. Harvard and Yale welcomed Princeton back into the Big Three, but they refused to share their traditional get-together on the sacronsanct last Saturday of the season...
Even after this declaration, many Republican politicians remained convinced that Dick Nixon would still be avail able for the nomination in 1964. If Rockefeller and Goldwater fought to a draw in the primaries, the Republican Party would assuredly turn to Nixon. And, by hallowed custom, politicians-like women-have the right to change their minds. In the next 2½ years, a lot could happen in Republican politics to change Dick Nixon's mind...