Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Manhattan's old Metropolitan Opera House resounded to an anvil chorus performed by wreckers and an anguished lamento from civic-minded spear carriers who had campaigned to save the old firetrap as a city landmark. But the house, which for 83 seasons had provided an echo chamber for virtually all the world's great voices, was sort of a wreck already, with no rehearsal space, some acoustical dead spots, a dusty stage that choked the singers, and a dingy exterior. Besides, the Met, which moved last September to its new $45 million Lincoln Center home, desperately needs...
...national commission, rather than the Office of Education, undertake a permanent testing program, most likely with federal funds. Coercive & Comparative. Both HEW Secretary John Gardner, who was head of the Carnegie Corporation when testing was first proposed, and Education Commissioner Harold Howe favor the program. So does the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which recently implied its support by deploring the fact that "there is little information to measure the quality of the public-school output-the student or graduate...
Lessons of Failure. When he entered the chamber of the House of Representatives, the assembly rose and gave him an unusually warm round of applause that lasted for nearly two minutes. As the President stood on the podium, he looked healthier than he had in many a month. His hair was a bit thinner and greyer, but an expensively tailored suit and a specially cut shirt collar helped give him a trim look. His manner was that of a man who had made up his mind to ignore outrageous slings and arrows and concentrate on the duties before...
...junior Senator-elect Mark Hatfield, enjoyed a sauna bath and massage, and used the Senate barbershop and dining room. Then, on the "big day," as he called it, Republican Brooke, 47, was escorted by Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy down the multicolored carpet of the Senate chamber to stand before Vice President Hubert Humphrey for the swearing-in ceremony. Brooke modestly shook hands with dozens of Senators, including segregationists, met fellow-Republican Freshmen Clifford Hansen of Wyoming, Charles Percy of Illinois and Howard Baker of Tennessee, and took his seat just across the aisle from Georgia Patriarch Richard Russell...