Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first ballot managed to prevent Plaza from getting the 15-vote majority that he needed for election. When the voting was still deadlocked after three more ballots, the Council declared an eleven-week "cooling-off" period. In the end, Ritter defeated himself by calling a special session of the OAS Council and claiming that a "conspiracy of sinister forces" tinged with "Nazism" was Arrayed against him. Seven delegations formally rejected his charges, and everyone else took a more critical look at the Panamanian. By the time last week's final balloting rolled around, Ritter had no hope of victory...
Miss Hellman wishes to "follow what the students want," Brower added. She will not limit her discussions to the theatre but hopes to spend at least one session on the movies...
...problem, of course, is that most of the time the Geneva Conference does not exist. ICC reports are dutifully received and filed in Geneva, but they cannot be discussed or acted upon unless the Conference is in session. It has not been since 1962, and since co-chairman Russia must support any call for a new gathering, it is not likely to be in the foreseeable future...
Cornell pulled ahead early in the first session and held a small lead, from one to five points, until 12 minutes remained in the game. Then Crimson captain Bobby Beller and forward Bob Kanuth propelled Harvard into a 50-49 advantage...
What resulted was sheer anarchy. For the first general session of the four-day conference at the Sheraton-Park Hotel, the editors found 500 chairs arranged in a circle, with 17 microphones placed at intervals. The idea was that anyone could speak whenever he felt like it. Those who felt most like it were hippie citizens of "Drop City," Colo., decked out in dungarees, headbands and feathers. "If I heard someone say once he was 'doing his thing,' I heard it a hundred times," reports Charles DeCarlo, director of automation research for IBM. Along with Buckminster Fuller...