Word: recessing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Britain's Parliament adjourned for its summer recess at the end of last week, nobody would have been surprised to see its Conservative members run -not walk-to the exits. Prime Minister Edward Heath's fifth week in office had been marked by one bad break after another: a continuing dock strike, an untimely death in the Prime Minister's official family, a Commonwealth-wide uproar over the proposed sale of arms to South Africa, and the most serious act of violence in the hallowed House of Commons since Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot...
...local branch of the Movement for a New Congress was forced off campus, at M.I.T. the group left of its own volition, and at Princeton the M.N.C. national headquarters still occupies campus offices. At the Plattsburgh campus of the State University of New York, S.U.N.Y. trustees canceled a planned recess; similar plans are being reconsidered at Columbia and Rutgers. The faculties of Harvard and Williams also voted down student requests for time off. Said Harvard: "If the university accommodates its work or reshapes its goals to political purposes, however worthy, its functions will be jeopardized, its quality eroded, its existence...
More sanguine about their futures, M.I.T., Vassar, Cornell, Princeton and the City University of New York will recess for one or two weeks before the election and reduce other vacations accordingly. At New York's Hofstra University, the problem is academic: 71% of Hofstra's students voted not to close...
...Princeton, under which students will get up to two weeks off before the November election for campaigning without raising tax problems for the schools. The time will be made up through rescheduling the rest of the academic calendar. At least 18 schools are going ahead with the election recess...
WHEN the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) opened in Vienna in mid-April, the assumption was that the U.S. and Soviet delegations would confer until early July before recessing for the summer. But last week, as they completed their 23rd session, it looked as if the delegates might keep going until late July or early August. The delayed recess buttressed hope that the two sides were making headway in the most important arms-control talks since the onset of the nuclear...