Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McNamara said that he hopes to meet with officials from the University and the Massachusetts institute of technology in the near future to discuss plans for expansion of the two institutions and to arrive at an agreement. The mayor claimed that slum areas often surround a collage area because no one knows where the collage will build next. McNamara indicated that in a meeting with University officials, he had sought an understanding of exactly where and how it plans to expand. The offer to buy the MTA land "brought the issue to a head," McNamara said...
Tears from a Hydrant. This chatter was only a way of passing the time, for the guests had come for something more important than Scotch and Spinoza. They had come to meet 32-year-old Allen Ginsberg of Paterson, N.J., author of a celebrated, chock-full catalogue called Howl (I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked), recognized leader of the pack of oddballs (TIME, June 9) who celebrate booze, dope, sex and despair and who go by the name of Beatniks...
Though the president of the deposed council protested, "This is a veritable coup d'etat" and there were rumors that the councilmen might meet in secret on French soil, Monegasques were neither rushing to the barricades nor fleeing to the border-a ten-minute walk from almost anywhere in Monaco. The 58-man army did not spring to arms, and Prince Rainier soothed his subjects by promising women the vote in national elections, a project dear to the heart of his U.S.-born wife...
...Paul's, before 20 surprised cardinals assembled to celebrate the 1,900th anniversary of the Epistle to the Romans, the Pope announced what may well be the most important 20th century landmark in the history of the Roman Catholic Church; the 21st Ecumenical Council, which will probably meet...
GOLD BAR TRADING is starting on the Toronto Stock Exchange, will plug Canadian gold, meet investors' growing demands for a hedge against possible U.S. dollar devaluation, i.e., by revaluing gold upward. Bars, weighing about 2.2 Ibs., cost around $1,100, but margin buyers need put up only...