Word: session
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...modern jazz piano. Yet for the better part of the past 15 years, he foundered as a forgotten jazz immortal swept aside by capricious tastes. Two years ago, his name was nowhere on the jazz popularity polls. Many fans thought that he had passed on to that big jam session in the sky. In this year's Down Beat International Jazz Critics Poll, however, he was voted the world's No. 1 jazz pianist...
...another marathon session ending at 5 a.m., the Common Market had agreed on a financing system for price supports and export subsidies-of which France will collect about 45% -and for modernizing farming, which will benefit Italy the most. These and other agreements virtually complete the creation of what the French call Europe verte (a green Europe), which will formally sprout on July 1, 1968, the date when the last industrial tariffs among the Six are also scheduled to disappear...
Within hours of the week's first session, members of the House had introduced four resolutions calling for an investigation of the thrice-divorced Justice's "moral character." Kansas Republican Robert Dole charged that Douglas had not only used "bad judgment from a matrimonial standpoint, but also in a number of 5-to-4 decisions of the Supreme Court." Democrat Byron Rogers of Colorado suggested that the romantic Justice might be retired under a law allowing for the removal of a judge "permanently disabled from performing his duties...
Suez-Size Sessions. By the time he got to Moscow, Wilson realized that he could no longer hold off another prompt round of emergency economic measures. Returning to London one morning last week, he called his ministers together for the longest Cabinet session since the Suez crisis. As they discussed measures, reports circulated that Britain's reserves in July alone had fallen by perhaps $1 billion, reducing reserves near a dangerously low $2 billion. Thus, it was in an atmosphere of extreme urgency that he went before a crowded House of Commons with his suggestions for a cure...
...Apart. In Washington, in a basement room at the Department of Labor, negotiations moved fretfully. At one .point, Chief I.A.M. Negotiator James Ramsey stomped out of a mediating session, held up all negotiations overnight because Northwest had warned its strikers in Tokyo that they must now pay rent in advance for their company-owned quarters. At week's end, Assistant Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds, the chief mediator, reported that the settlement was "no nearer than a week...