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After the hearings, the committee seemed sure to endorse Rockefeller, unless a review of his tax returns now being conducted by the Internal Revenue Service raises awkward questions. Because the Senate will recess in mid-October for the upcoming elections, Chairman Howard W. Cannon does not expect the committee to vote on Rockefeller until November. The House Judiciary Committee will probably conduct its hearings after the elections, which will prevent Rocky from campaigning for fellow Republicans. Then, presumably before year's end, both the House and the Senate will vote on the confirmation of Nelson Rockefeller as the 41st...
...Faculty extended last year's Christmas recess by a week...
Barnaby rearranged practice times for his junior varsity team--and often cut their times--so that the Radcliffe players had one of the three courts for two hours, six days per week. During spring recess, the Athletics Department sent the women's tennis team on a Southern tour...
...reply, the Justice Department maintained that President Nixon had done nothing that had not been done before and been accepted by Congress. Why single him out for attack? The courts were unmoved. The lower court ruled that the recess was too brief to justify a pocket veto. The appeals court went further. Since a pocket veto is a "departure from the central scheme of the Constitution," the court ruled that it could not be exercised during an "intrasession adjournment...
...didn't you give the Greeks and Greek Cypriots the 36-hour recess they requested before ending the talks...