Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become automatic, touched the fingers of his left hand to a small scar on his jaw, all that remained of the assassin's bullet that had nearly killed him in 1960. Verwoerd was in high spirits. He was about to make his first major speech of the session, and for the occasion he had had his hair...
...mount a massive barrage of letters at the drop of a new gun bill, a measure sponsored by Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd to curb interstate firearms traffic re mained bottled up last week in the Senate Judiciary Committee, with prospects for its passage in this session dimming rapidly...
Bristling Broadside. Valenti has already visited the sets of several pictures, has studied the editing, dubbing and scoring processes, has even sat in on a contract-haggling session in the William Morris talent agency. Between rubbernecking tours, he has picked some of the best and least complacent brains in the business-George Stevens Sr., Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet. His homework has included not only the autobiography of Jack Warner but / Lost It at the Movies, Critic Pauline Kael's bristling broadside on what is wrong with Hollywood. (Valenti underlined the most compelling passages with a yellow felt...
...short hairs are best ignored. His excursions into philosophy, all taken in Jean-Paul Sartre's second-class compartment, begin at the level of the college bull session and follow a descending route. "Coitus interruptus is evil," announces Mailer in the course of a Playboy magazine panel discussion on sex. Food has a soul, he writes; fresh food has more soul than canned food. Terminal cancer cases can be arrested by reading William Burroughs: "Bet money on that." The now-notorious Mailer sense of smell, which got such a bloodhound workout in his last novel, An American Dream...
...Bills. In its inherent madness, apartheid breeds more apartheid. Recent government edicts have ordered professional associations to expel African doctors and lawyers and have imposed segregation on charitable institutions. Before the current session of Parliament is a bill to further restrict the voting rights of the Cape Coloreds by allowing the government to select the candidates for their four white representatives in Parliament...