Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge Housing Convention, which in September blasted Harvard and Harvard students for contributing to the City's lack of low-rent housing, will hold its second session...
...convention's first session on Sept. 14, about 800 Cambridge residents passed scores of resolutions, many of them sharply-worded, calling for action by the universities and the City government to increase the supply of low-rent housing in Cambridge. Since then the co-ordinating committee appointed to carry on the convention's business has held over 40 meetings to work on the housing problem with Harvard and M.I.T. officials, the City Council, and other Cambridge organizations...
...spokesman for the convention said yesterday that the second session would have "a more program-oriented approach than the first convention," explaining that the coordinating committee will report on the progress of its negotiations, and probably suggest some specific programs as goals for the convention, he said. The meeting, which is open to all those interested in the housing problem, will probably be held in a hall at St. Mary's Church...
...York City teachers' strike, which denied 1,100,000 children formal schooling for 36 school days in three separate walkouts this fall, finally ended last week. As might be expected in so bitter a battle, the terms of settlement-reached after a 27-hour weekend negotiating session-did not really please anyone. In the long view, the militant United Federation of Teachers may have lost far more than...
...truce was illustrated when eight union teachers were prevented from entering an Ocean Hill-Brownsville school. Shanker threatened to call the teachers out on a fourth strike if they were not admitted quickly. Swift action by Trustee Johnson averted more trouble, and the schools went back into full session...