Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limelight-even though he was clearly the main attraction for the mobs. "We are not even No. 2," he kept reminding aides during the seven-nation meeting on Viet Nam. "We are No. 7." In public appearances, he squeezed no arms, slapped no backs. During a picture-taking session before the Philippine House of Representatives, he carefully stood a couple of steps below his Asian colleagues so as not to tower over them...
...final session, Johnson persuaded the Koreans and the Vietnamese that Point 29 would not be misread as a hedge for a U.S. pullout at any price. "Nobody can accuse us of a soft attitude," said the President. "If anyone doubts the basis of our commitment, they will find that we have more troops in Viet Nam than there are words in the Webster's New Dictionary...
With elections coming up this month in two important West German states, Mende was determined to dissociate himself from Erhard and stake out a popular vote-catching position for his party. In a marathon Cabinet session, Mende argued for holding the tax line. Having made his point, he finally settled for a compromise whereby Erhard pledged to resort to increased taxes only if economizing measures proved insufficient. Next morning the humiliation of the headlines-FREE DEMOCRATS CAVE IN -forced the Free Democrats to reconsider their position. Within a few hours, Mende telephoned Erhard that the F.D.P. had quit the coalition...
After a grueling 38-week session, practically everybody in Congress had hustled home to the hustings for a few speeches before Election Day. Staying behind in Washington, however, was an indefatigable pair: Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, 69, and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 70, who went on orating in their pajamas at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Russell was in for a routine physical, Dirksen for an operation to remove the surgical pins from the hip he fractured last spring. It looked as if they were getting set for a hot debate on Medicare...
...cash; they admitted their crime after flunking a lie-detector test given by the oil company. After they made up the loss, the company filed no charges, and no one notified the police. Byrd, unable to make bail, stayed in jail for almost six months, vainly pleading for a session with a lie-detector test himself. Not until last Jan. 31 did the prosecutor finally permit the test, which the truck driver passed with flying colors; not until last month did the police finally erase Byrd's "criminal record." Byrd himself must now erase the $8,000 in debts...