Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goldfine hired a Manhattan pressagent to help him stage an "Anti-Hard Times Conference." Aboard Gold-fine-furnished chartered planes New England's Governors landed at Montpelier, Vt. to be greeted by 19-gun salutes, a joint session of the legislature, tours to nearby Strathmore woolen mills and learned dinner talks on how other businessmen should imitate Owner Goldfine. Among the honored guests was one of Bernie Goldfine's oldest and dearest friends. New Hampshire's Governor Sherman Adams. Other New England politicians whom he warmly befriended: New Hampshire's Republican Senators Styles Bridges...
...expectant stillness, the silence of men aware that they are witnesses at a moment of history, gripped the House of Representatives one morning last week as members waited for Speaker Sam Rayburn to announce the result of the roll-call vote on the session's most important bill. "The yeas were 317," he intoned, "and the nays were 98." Members gasped and whistled: the House had passed the Administration's reciprocal trade bill by a surprisingly decisive margin...
...maintains. This encouraging of intimate, individual parent-school contact prevents a community from looking upon the school committee as a power structure that must be beaten down in order to have one's say. In Cambridge, where so much of the recent appointments scandal was carried on in "executive session," from which visitors were barred, such a structure has been built up, at least in the minds of the citizenry. To succeed in running an effective school system, then, the school board must unite the community behind it, and in so doing it will absorb and affect the ideas...
Responding to the national cry for more science education, Scarsdale has instituted a modified summer school session for those who want to take advance biology, physics, or chemistry. Because there is not enough time to take a full Advanced Placement course in any of these subjects in one year, students take the elemntary portions over the summer to qualify for the higher-level courses during the regular term...
Though it summons up the fictional nightmares of a Kafka or a Koestler, this episode is a matter of cold-sweat fact. It was the first session in an ordeal by torture undergone by French Communist Journalist Henri Alleg, 37, at an "interrogation" center at El Biar, in suburban Algiers, during June and July 1957. His torturers: paratroopers of the French army's 10th Division-later rebels against the Republic-to whom the use of torture has apparently come to be regarded as a "necessary" weapon against the Algerian nationalists...