Word: recessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...involved the State Department refused. Finally -- "more or less by physical violence," he later said -- he was able to extract permission from Washington to communicate the number of planes to Nehru. "Parliament assembled a week or two ago," he wrote me toward the end of August, "and during the recess two things had happened: We had committed a half billion in aid to India and the twelve F-104 planes to Pakistan. The ratio of questions, words, comments and emotion has been not less than ten to one in favor of the planes. Such is the current yield...
Throughout the congressional recess and his own convalescence, Lyndon Johnson remained serenely aloof from partisan politics. When he returned to the ring last week, the President showed that he had lost none of his old élan for upstaging the opposition. Waiting until only a few hours before the G.O.P.'s Ev Dirksen and Gerry Ford were to take to TV with their "little State of the Union" message, Johnson summoned the White House press to witness a series of top-of-the-bill turns deftly calculated to steal front-page space from the Republicans...
...first ballot for mayor, Walter J. Sullivan had four votes, and Alfred E. Vellucci was voting for himself. Vellucci said last night that he had pledged his vote to Sullivan the night before the deadlocked ballotting was to resume after a week's recess. Vellucci's vote would have given Sullivan a majority, but William G. Maher, who had previously voted for Sullivan, shifted to Hayes...
...Society, Lyndon Johnson tuned the 89th Congress to produce just the sound he wanted: "Aye." The result was the most expansive and expensive outpouring of domestic legislation in U.S. history. This week "the fabulous 89th"-as Johnson likes to call it-convened its second session after a 78-day recess. This time the going will not be so easy. Well-rested and strengthened by pulse-feeling back home, the Congress returns to Washington far less docile and far more doubtful than when it left. Some legislators believe, in fact, that the 89th's second session could become...
...fact, the only thing the delegates could agree on was a desire to recess the talks until after the month-long Islamic holy fast of Ramadan, which began last week. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who backed the Republicans and Royalists respectively, appealed to the delegates to continue the talks. But the Yemenis simply began to slip away. With their departure came the fear that the shooting might start again, for both sides have kept forces in a state of combat alert. Egyptians and Saudis immediately began strengthening their joint peace...