Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...A.M.A. office in Washington are cards on each member of Congress, including the name of his personal physician-who is often asked to pay a political call on his Capitol Hill patient. When important legislation is under study (there are about 1,600 health bills before this session of Congress), the A.M.A. can signal its 3,000 county medical societies to start a letter-writing campaign. A favorite tactic is to get leading county doctors to march into a Congressman's office to argue for or against a bill. The association's most powerful ally on Capitol Hill...
Torpedoed at Bangalore. A showdown began to develop two weeks ago at the Bangalore session of the All-India Congress Committee, the party's policy-setting group. In principle, the members of the Syndicate endorsed Indira's efforts to speed India's swing to the left, but in practice they dragged their sandals. Supported by Desai, her chief opponents were Bombay Leader S. K. Patil, Congress Party President S. Nijalingappa, former President Kumaraswami Kamaraj and West Bengal Chieftain Atuyla Ghosh. After first challenging Indira in closed meetings, her opponents tried to sidestep such proposals as nationalizing Indian...
...would it be his son, Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 31, a sports-loving young man who has been educated in Spain and lives there now? Last week the Caudillo moved to bring the guessing to an end by calling for a special session of the Cortes, at which he intends to announce his choice. There is no doubt that it will be Prince Juan Carlos...
Marching around the campus, the BPRSC turned out practically every Black and Puerto Rican student in the session. Lead by the black, red, and green flag of the Third World over 1500 students marched to the Administration building where they burned an effigy to Dr. Gallagher. Marching up to the Administration building, the protestors sang, "We love our hearts," and "On strike, shut it down." As the dummy with the word "Racism" painted on its chest was burned the brothers and sisters sang "Time to pick up the gun; the revolution has come...
...final session of the symposium, Belgium's Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, one of the most progressive prelates in Europe, read a letter from Swiss-born Theologian Hans Küng warning that an increasing number of priests were determined to carry on with church renewal-with or without the bishops. Although the Chur delegates sat stonily silent as the plea was read, they did approve a cautious statement acknowledging that priests want an "authentic co-responsibility" within the church. But the bishops did not comment on the demands of the radicals, who made it clear they intend that their...