Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Caught in a trap, Aspinall backed down. "It amounts to blackmail," he grumbled, as he allowed that if Hayden would withdraw his rider and stick with the Central Arizona Project bill as passed by the Senate, Aspinall's committee would take it up first thing next session. "This is all I ever wanted," responded Hayden with a grin...
...welfare payments for the Indians, Es kimos and Aleuts who do most of the fishing. The Federal Government is con- tributing surplus foods, and free am munition is being doled out so that they can hunt for meat to sustain them through the Alaskan winter. At a special session of the legislature, Governor Walter J. Hickel proposed that unemployment payments be stretched from the current 28 weeks to a full year...
Karp, also 39, will agree to make a multimillion dollar acquisition between handball games or during an after-lunch ten-mile walk-and-talk session. Out of this unorthodox exercise of brains and brawn has evolved an impressive track record in business. Since they took over Monogram six years ago, the two have sent sales hurtling from $6,000,000 to a current annual rate of more than $100 million. Three years ago, Monogram stock was selling at $4 a share...
...succeeded with many types of camera, including various models of the Polaroid and conventional negative-positive instruments, but now uses the Model 95 (a discontinued Polaroid line) almost exclusively, as he finds it gives him the best results. Eisenbud documents only his use of some other Polaroid models. At sessions, Serios ordinarily sits wth a bright light source shining from behind him over one shoulder (though he has worked and succeeded in conditions of semi-darkness) and holds the camera on his knees or lap, with its focus lever set and taped at infinity, and its lens pointing toward...
...least one expert in photography and optics, Mr. Billie Wheeler, the head of the Center's Department of Audio-Visual Education. Eisenbud asserts that all of them have signed statements attesting to the physical events his book describes, and further stating that after participating in a Serios session, they could advance no material explanation for what they saw. As Eisenbud himself points out, these men and women, whatever their credentials, are neither experts in the field nor trained observers, and it is not statistically impossible that all or some of them could have been deceived. But their very number...