Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the first period passed by dully, but when the second session opened Harvard reasserted its intention of winning with an even quicker score...
...Council met in executive session before taking its public stand. In that closed meeting, at least two councillors favored recommending an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. alignment. It was decided, however, to present only the general motion-asking for the delay-in order to have complete unity among the nine councillors...
Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, a Hawaiian of Japanese descent who lives in Maryland when Congress is in session, protested that half of the population of Hawaii would be considered "impure" in the eyes of Maryland. The law, he added, would make "interesting reading in many parts of Southeast Asia where we talk about democracy...
...world about 60,000 priests have left the ministry, and many of them have married. Rome's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the Holy Office, has on file at least 10,000 applications from priests asking to be released from their vows. At the fourth session of the council, Latin American bishops privately circulated a survey of 1,000 Brazilian priests, indicating that a majority were unhappy about their unmarried state. Another Latin American survey suggested that many priests who found celibacy no problem were either emotionally immature or latent homosexuals...
...Days to Object. Caught between an outraged chairman and an angry majority, House Speaker John McCormack worked out a compromise. The bill could be reported out, he ordered, but only in proper style and session, and with the chairman's name on it. "Sometimes," grumped Wright Patman as he went through the motions, "we have to take something that is considered bad in order to keep from taking something worse...