Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hands characteristically clasped behind his back, tall, 28-year-old King Baudouin, slim and erect in a plain military uniform, walked to the Speaker's rostrum, bowed to the left and the right, told the joint session of Congress: "I am here to register the solidarity between the people of Belgium and America...
Gromyko, "the world's highest-ranking errand boy," arrived at the opening session wearing, of all things, a Homburg. Hamming for the cameras, the dour old disher-upper of cold-war epithets raised the Homburg and waved, and he cracked a certain smile as he posed with his East Germans at his elbow. (Actually, at least three of the six East Germans, including Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz, are Soviet citizens who spent years in Russian exile, came back to Germany with the Red armies.) Taking his turn in the chair next day. Gromyko pressed for admitting Poland and Czechoslovakia...
Soviet Earful. Beyond Gromyko's personal performance, the Russians showed they have finally mastered the main news-shaping device of mid-century diplomacy: the formal briefing. With the foreign ministers meeting behind closed doors, many correspondents found the post-session briefings their only source of solid news, other than the handouts of speeches for which they scrambled wildly...
Displaying a showman's neat touch, Kharlamov once produced Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin to field questions, later used the old politician's trick of calling a surprise session at noon in order to hit the afternoon papers with a fresh story (the claim that Russia would insist to the end on full participation for Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia). With such attractions, Russian briefings regularly attracted bigger audiences than those of the West...
Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams last week called a joint session of the legislature and read the riot act. "This is truly a disgraceful condition to which a great state has been reduced," cried he. "It cannot but shake the confidence of the people in the procedures of representative government...