Word: sessions
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First he called Parliament into emergency session, rammed through a constitutional amendment forcing the rebels to resign their seats and run for office again, this time against KANU's powerful opposition instead of with its support. Then, before a mass rally in Nairobi last week, he produced four former Mau Mau leaders who told the shocked crowd that Odinga had offered them nearly $500,000 to return to the forests to fight Kenyatta. "If you play around with me," warned the Mzee, "you'll be playing around with a lion." So saying, he reshuffled his Cabinet, putting...
...Arons requires many essays of his students, considers this "feedback" vital to good teaching. "You can't just get up there and say something crisply and clearly and think that it has registered," he says. He has been personally grading papers for 20 years, and "almost every session I learn something new about the obstacles that arise in the students' minds." To their amazement, those students who muster enough courage to ask his help have found Arons pleased, patient, and wholly effective in overcoming obstacles...
...looking at the backs of one another's necks." He seeks "an electric exchange" with students, is "tremendously pleased" when invited to a student dinner or fraternity house. His loftiest aim for his C.C. course, in fact, is to furnish ideas for the kids to kick around in bull sessions. "The bull session is a very important aspect of education," he contends. As the hours grow late, students "express what they are really thinking about?they educate each other...
Upthink all the way was the intended theme as the Democratic National Committee and members of the Cam paign Conference for Democratic Women converged on Washington last week for their pre-election rah-rah session. Unsurpassed prosperity and the unmatched legislative record of the 89th Congress seemed the ideal sword and buckler for the combat ahead. "Go forth," enjoined Hubert Humphrey, "with almost a crusading zeal to talk about not only what we've done, but how we've done...
Thus, amid centuries-old pomp and pageantry-and for the first time under the eyes of television cameras-the Queen last week summoned the Commons to a parliamentary session that promises to be the longest, most loquacious and most Laborious since the end of World War II. As 185 rounds of gunfire celebrated the double occasion of a royal birthday (it was Elizabeth's 40th) and Parliament's opening, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's strengthened Laborites made it clear that in this session they hope to pass all the controversial bills that their pre-election majority...