Word: recessions
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...worthy enough experiment, but it never got off the ground. Parliament immediately went into a long recess, and when it finally reconvened last month, an angry Mobutu all but put it out of business...
...disillusions have been great," the general told the assembled legislators. "Profiting from the recess, certain of you have spread false reports in your home areas. You have done everything to sow disorder...
...SCHOOLS. A cut-for a change-from $260 million this fiscal year to $159 million in 1966-67 in federal subsidies for school lunches and recess milk. Though the President said that the remaining funds would be rechanneled to provide food for children "who need it most," his suggested savings stirred pious protest in Congress...
...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...