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After stretching an announced 10 minute recess to nearly 30 minutes last night, the Student Council gave up its attempt to collect the required two-thirds quorum and suspended action on all but procedural matters until...
...coat buttons, smooths his hair, swings his right foot restlessly. A gesture of extreme agitation: a desperate fingering of his necktie, reserved for the approach of Indians bearing war bonnets, nuns, or other disconcerting greeters. He obviously has a New England reticence about himself, is unwilling to surrender some recess of his privacy. Mingling with the crowds of well-wishers, Kennedy moves rapidly, shaking every available hand, signing autographs, smiling shyly and murmuring "Thank you" or "Glad to be here," as he goes. Greeting his fans from a distance, he lifts his right hand in a diffident, shoulder-high wave...
...Kennedy, Johnson & Co. made ready to get the disastrous post-convention session over with and get out of town. Asked by a newsman whether he thought that the Democrats had made a mistake in scheduling the post-convention session of Congress, Kennedy showed the strain. "I didn't recess it," he snapped, "and I didn't bring it back...
...night that recess is declared early, regularly scheduled programs will be resumed...
...Kishi was still determined to sweat out final ratification of the treaty. The Socialists mustered their forces to demand a Diet recess, which would stall off ratification. Demonstrators seethed around the Diet building. Thousands of students attended the funeral of their "Joan of Arc," Michiko Kamba, and a flower-bedecked altar was set up at the spot where she had been trampled to death. In the Diet courtyard, where he was collecting signatures against the treaty, a Socialist bigwig was stabbed in the shoulder by a mechanic who said he was fed up with Socialist violence. Socialist Deputies cornered Kishi...