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...night wore on, three candidates withdrew, but Wallace stood fast, hopeful that he might become the compromise choice. Backstage, the candidates' tacticians huddled, vainly seeking deals that might break the deadlock. On the sixth ballot, Wallace began to slip. The May forces tried to get a recess until morning to gain time to persuade Wallace to with draw and throw his votes to May. Uncomfortable and hungry, the delegates in sisted with rhythmical clapping that the voting continue. On the seventh Wallace was down to 43 votes, while Alsop had 309 and May 302. Foreseeing the end, Wallace withdrew...
...angry Congressman stepped to a microphone, stared scornfully at the nearly empty chamber, and denounced a motion that the House of Representatives recess for three days. "I am becoming more and more disturbed over the failure of the House to get down to work," he snapped. "This is just about the most do-nothing session I have seen in my 14 years here." He had figured it all out, and a little later he passed on his statistics to reporters. So far this year, he said, the House has been working an average of only four hours...
...vote and 45 congressional seats in elections last March. But the action may have a wider effect. Argentines, and their free but prudent press, have until now shown themselves curiously lethargic to their country's fate. Last week political parties on all sides cried outrage and defiance. "The recess decree is a juridical absurdity," snapped Olegario Becerra, the acting presiding officer of the Chamber of Deputies. "Tomorrow, insofar as it is in my power," he promised...
...Office for Graduate and Career Plans claimed that it had definite commitments for seven positions with Congressmen from Massachusetts, Mary-land, California, and Nebraska in a notice that ran in the CRIMSON before Spring recess...
...nearby Benedictine seminary. Sister Naz arena shares in the convent work by sewing and cutting the palms ; her materi als are delivered to her cell by a nun who taps at her door, whispers "Deo gratias," waits long enough for Sister Naz arena to hide in a recess of her cell, then sets the cloth or fronds inside the door...