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While the House could barely muster enough members to pass its own recess resolution, the Senate was in full session, with members of two committees thumbing their noses respectively at their colleagues in the House and their leader in the White House...
...time that at least one congressional committee stood up to the President and let him know that it can see what is needed in the cities and has the guts to go ahead and propose it." Nor is the mood of frustrated independence likely to change after the recess is over. "We not only don't know the answers ourselves," said one Republican Senator, "but we are completely convinced that nobody else knows them either-particularly the Administration...
Mills's committee will continue its hearings until the Labor Day recess, then withdraw into executive session to decide whether, politically as well as economically, the time and the season are right for a tax boost. The bill that emerges will probably call for an increase of at most 6%, far less than the President now deems necessary but the very amount that he prescribed in his budget message last January...
When the City Council convened Monday after about a month's recess, everyone expected a hot debate to develop on the new Harvard Square traffic plan. But oddly enough, there was not even a mention...
...ARVN units are willing to move at night-they fear ambush-and they often recess the war for the weekend while officers whip off to Saigon to see their families or make the bar-hostess rounds. Patrols sometimes play transistor radios on search-and-destroy missions to warn the enemy away. More than one ARVN unit has radioed back to its headquarters that it has taken some key objective when actually it is holed up in a safe spot miles away. And the South Vietnamese are notoriously disrespectful of private property, frequently taking chickens, pigs and other peasant possessions...