Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...activist solutions. Yet the President has good reason to be gratified. The burst of inflation that dismayed economists early this year, seems to have receded. Indeed, Commerce Secretary John T. Connor predicted last week that "unless there is a drastic change, there will be no new tax in this session of Congress" (though that qualified forecast was later hedged even more by Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler...
Every other year, Venice resumes its ancient, skulduggerish air of a medieval city-state choosing a doge. The modern version is the International Biennale of Art, which last week, in its 33rd session, pitted more than 270 artists from 37 nations in an ofttimes murky, sometimes catty battle for supremacy. Over the years, jurors have been called corrupt, the vernissage* week of hanging and judging has been sneered away as a mere carnival, and the prizes have been dismissed as being as meaningless as leather medals...
...recently, a small EJA jet picked up Morris at Wheeling, W. Va., at 8 a.m., flew him to a 90-minute meeting in Washington, then on to a 90-minute conference in Philadelphia, finally to a two-hour session in White Plains, N.Y. By 5 p.m. Morris was home, and EJA, which has the only all-jet, executive "lease contract" fleet in the U.S., had logged in another contented customer...
Though Little Lady ultimately cheats a little, the rustle of skirts in the midst of a down-and-dirty poker session provokes comic agony. Among the bystanders swept a'ong to the payoff, Paul Ford as the town banker and Burgess Meredith as a high-living frontier doctor help to point up the very evident pleasures of gambling, hard liquor and fast company...
Compassionate Helmsman. In an earlier but more dramatic confrontation at Amherst, McNamara, having heard rumors of impending protest, met 500 students and faculty before the commencement ceremonies, quipping, "I am told that this question session is a requirement to get an honorary degree at Amherst." He coolly answered sharp but politely put questions for more than an hour. When a student told him that some seniors would wear white arm bands and walk out to protest his honorary degree, McNamara said he respected their position because "I don't think we want to deny the freedom here that...