Word: recessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negotiations. Victory by either will represent a sharp break in the Old Etonian tradition of the gifted amateur in Tory politics. Indeed, Sir Alec may well be the last of that line. If so, the last of the amateurs had made a thoroughly professional decision last week. With parliamentary recess looming, the new top Tory will have ample time to marshal his forces before facing the Commons in November, and to establish his control over the party before the annual Tory conference next October...
...Moscow, laid the groundwork for the 17-nation disarmament committee's only major breakthrough in its three years of effort: the 1963 treaty banning above-ground nuclear tests. Last week as the committee prepared to reconvene in Geneva's Palais des Nations after a ten-month recess, Harriman by an odd coincidence was just finishing up another quiet week in Moscow-a "vacation," he called it, in which he just happened to meet twice with Russian Premier Aleksei Kosygin for some five hours of talks...
Harvard is "willing to start construction any time," L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president, said last night. If the City Council gives its approval before its summer recess at the end of June, first construction would probably begin before the close of the year and the entire project would be completed before...
...held none of Tocsin's naive hopes about establishing a meaningful dialogue with Washington officialdom. Its leaders chose Easter weekend for the march, although they must have realized that Congress would be in recess and Johnson probably in Texas. Students made no appointments with officials. They did not seem to think that they could "come and reason together" with Johnson; nor did they believe that a dramatic reevaluation of U.S. policy would result...
Last week, as the U.N. painfully struggled through another week of nonconfrontation, many delegates were looking forward to the lengthy recess promised by Assembly President Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana, during which-hopefully-the payments crisis would be resolved and a new peace-keeping formula devised. Still, amid warnings from within and without that they may be attending the funeral of the U.N., many embarrassed and embittered delegates were calling the organization by a new name: "Procrasti-Nations...