Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Name." The war was not even on the agenda as the Assembly convened, though it will clearly dominate the three-month session. On the eve of the opening, Pope Paul VI delivered in Rome an impassioned, 1,700-word encyclical addressed to both sides: "We cry to them in God's name to stop." In another plea, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant made the extravagant claim that the conflict had become a "holy war between two powerful political ideologies." Its issues, he said, can be resolved "not by force but by patience and understanding." Thant went...
House was still waiting for it at week's end. In the House, Powell has shown up for only 54 of 135 roll calls this session...
Parental Wrath. The uninitiated in the nearly full house of 2,500 people are still a little dazed by it all. But the Guide explains. "What we have relived tonight," he says, "is one minute in an LSD session. Visionaries throughout history have made this voyage and come back to teach its truths to the waiting world...
...tape library with his own recordings, and when he learned that a symphony musician could be hired for $50.40 per day in Britain (v. $123.20 in the U.S.), he figured that it was a good buy. After all, there are psychiatric patients who pay that much just for one session on a couch, and for that they don't even get Muzak...
Bowes, who feels that baton waving is one of the best ways to release pent-up urges, began his six-hour recording session by conducting the orchestra in a spirited rendition of God Save the Queen. Then he turned the podium over to BBC Conductor Geoffrey Brand, who whipped the musicians into shape, stepping aside to allow Bowes the therapeutic benefit of conducting a few of the final takes. Total cost...