Word: confab
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Purpose of the confab, Wagner said, was to settle the party dispute over the majority leadership of the state legislature, taken over by the Democrats in last year's election. In that fight, one slate is backed by Wagner, who was represented at the meeting by Jones, Weinstein and O'Rourke; the other is supported by an anti-Wagner coalition including McKeon, English, Palmer and Crotty, and attaching itself to the political star of Freshman U.S. Senator Bobby Kennedy...
...Hill. Only a month in office Johnson has already indicated that flexibility and naturalness will guide his engagements with the press. That was how it was when Johnson was still on the Hill: a sudden summons, an easy confab over coffee, or perhaps a whisky highball. Last week's impromptu get-together was the second such for White House newsmen. The President has also paid his social respects to most of the syndicated political columnists. Last week, officials of the three television networks were his lunch guests...
Making Mosaics. At this deeply scientific confab on one of humanity's most distressing problems, the unexpected heroine was a quiet Englishwoman who presented no paper and who is, of all things, editor of a semiannual Mouse News Letter. Since the first such conference in London three years ago, the most noteworthy progress in unraveling the mysteries of human heredity has been based on the work of Geneticist Mary F. Lyon, 38. Born in Norwich, daughter of a civil servant, Mary Lyon got a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, specializing in mouse genetics. She now works at the Radiobiological Research...
Just how bad became apparent when Nikita coldly refused to attend the first scheduled summit meeting, which had been planned as an intimate and secret confab amongst the Big Four alone. Instead, he announced, he would show up only for the large (24 people), on-record meeting whose proceedings he would be free to blare out to the world...
...press confab last year Harry Truman wished aloud: "The thing I'd like to do if I ran a newspaper would be the telegraph editor and the blue-pencil man. And then I'd sure get what I wanted in the paper!" In Miami last week Harry got his wish, muffed his opportunity. Invited by the Miami Herald's Republican Publisher John S. Knight to try out a blue pencil, Truman accepted, but first he visited the Democratic-angled afternoon News, where he sat at the telegraph editor's desk and did little but doodle...