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Since returning from a well-deserved one-month recess in September, Sam Ervin's Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities has never regained the earlier momentum of its investigation into the Watergate mess and other scandals. Last week, on the day that it had been scheduled to begin examining publicly one of several pieces of important unfinished business, the seven-member committee suddenly voted to suspend its hearings indefinitely-until January at the earliest. The decision helped underscore the factionalism and frustration that has lately shaken the committee's once solid and purposeful ranks...
Lawrence E. Fouraker, dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, announced yesterday that the recess will run from December 21 through January 14 for most students. However, some special category doctoral candidates will have to return January 9 to take exams, he said...
...commander of the U.N. forces, Major General Ensio Siilasvuo of Finland, who presided over the meetings. At an earlier session, General Siilasvuo had asked each side to come back with a set of proposals that it thought might be acceptable to the other. On Thursday, after a three-day recess, the generals returned to face each other once again over Israeli coffee and Egyptian pastry...
...Commerce committees of both the House and the Senate swiftly approved a bill to put the U.S. on year-round Daylight Saving Time, as President Nixon requested in his emergency message two weeks ago. The measure is expected to get final approval soon after Congress returns from Thanksgiving recess and will probably take effect in early January. Moving the clock ahead one hour is expected to diminish energy...
Baker originally filed his suit in October 1970. It first came to court in mid-July of this year, but Eisele postponed it after a week. Court proceedings resumed in early September for two days, before the current recess was called...