Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, there are signs that the President is resigning himself to the fact that he will never be loved by all of the people all of the time. At a recent White House session with 30 Democratic freshman Congressmen all edgy about the November elections, Johnson promised to do whatever he could to assist them: campaign in their home districts, stay away-or even, he suggested with a grin, campaign against them, if that would help...
When Marcos stepped up to a small podium beneath the Speaker's desk in the House to address a joint session of Congress, he regained the spotlight with a carefully reasoned plea for a continued U.S. presence in Asia (see ESSAY). "Today we send our sons in total commitment to South Viet Nam on an errand of mercy, although we face the retaliation of armed Communism in our own land," he said. Eying Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright who sat-on his hands -a few rows away, he said: "We note a hesitancy, some frustration...
Irked not only by the civil rights talkathon but also by delaying action in congressional committees on eight major appropriations bills, Senators eager to return home for campaigning grew increasingly restive. Lyndon Johnson had, after all, predicted last year that the session would end before July. By week's end, however, the log jam began to ease as budget requests for the District of Columbia and for new military construction passed the House and another for public works emerged from a House committee...
With this hard-slung pebble for the Philistines, Director Amos Vogel of the New York Film Festival last week opened the fourth annual session of the most prestigious U.S. cinema congress. In a way, the pebble ricocheted. Too many of the far-out films shown at this year's festival tried hard to be difficult but just turned out dull. Too many others were bad jobs by good directors (Bunuel, Bresson, Godard, Torre Nilsson, Varda). Though the sponsors had doggedly previewed 400 films, their efforts failed to turn up enough hits to fill out the festival's fortnight...
...which he had been hired only a month before. Tsafendas was obviously distraught. At lunch with his fellow messengers, he had hardly touched his curry, left early without explanation. Now, as the warning bell summoned the Members of Parliament to their seats for the opening of the session, he refused to run a routine errand requested by a local newsman. "I have something to do," he muttered. Then, with a six-inch dagger concealed in his right hand and two stilettos tucked in his belt, Tsafendas walked into the chamber...