Word: cancellations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name, along with that of many other American China specialists, was thrown into the cauldron of the Internal Security Subcommittee by a few former Communist agents. The charges against him, as against most, were false but inconvenient. After traveling all the way to the West Coast, he had to cancel a sabbatical to Japan when the American occupation army refused to clear him for entry. With some difficulty he was granted a hearing before the Senate subcommittee on Internal Security. Mindful of others who had waked in trusting only their own innocence, Fairbank crammed for the hearing...
...deeply moved by your call upon the academic community to assist the State of California in balancing her budget. As my contribution to this noble effort. I have decided to cancel my planned visit to several of the campuses of the University of California, to which I had been invited to discuss the possibility of joining the faculty. This will at the very least save the University and the State of California one round-trip, cross country plane ticket and very possibly my salary in future years...
...week's end Frei refused to cancel the Washington trip; instead, he returned his original travel request to the Chamber of Deputies, where a majority vote would send it on to the Senate for a second try. By then, Frei hopes to persuade the opposition to reconsider. As part of the pressure he is applying, Frei sent to Congress a bill that would empower the President to dissolve Congress once during his six-year term and call new elections...
Throughout the last half of 1966, the high cost of food brought continuing complaints from housewives - and trading stamps came in for a clamorous share of the blame. Despite the com plaints, and the move by some food stores to cancel stamps, the industry it self had a passable year. Summing up, Sperry and Hutchinson Co. President William S. Beinecke last week reported that all trading stamps increased sales 2.1% to $794 million v. 3.2% the year before. S & H, whose Green Stamps make it the largest company in the field with 40% of the business, expects when figures...
...Charter Flights Agency may be forced to cancel some of its flights to Europe for the summer...