Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some 70 tourists from Capitol Hill found their way to the war that will occupy so much of the next session's business. With rarely more than 120 first-class (hot and cold running water) hotel rooms available in Saigon and logistics and manpower problems in the field, U.S. officials were often hard pressed to take care of the Congressmen. Nonetheless, most Saigon hands appreciated the visitors' eagerness to learn about the war at firsthand...
...defector in each body to give them the necessary two-thirds majority. On the veterans bill in particular, the Democrats saw clear sailing, since 28 G.O.P. house members had voted for the original measure. But they reckoned without Romney's powers of persuasion. At the one-day special session, despite three hours of floor wrangling and a gallery packed with shouting supporters of the bill, house Democrats failed to win even one Republican. Senate Democrats fared no better, failed to roll back Romney's veto on the school and rent bills...
...Around Washington, such failures prompt the scornful comment that Johnson is a "boxscore President," one who has racked up a fantastically high average in getting his programs through Congress but does not know how to administer them once they have become law. There were rumblings that the second session of the 89th may not be as acquiescent to Lyndon's wishes and whims as this year's Congress...
...self-discovery of their common responsibility for the church as a whole. By working together, says Dr. John K. S. Reid, an observer from the World Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches, "the council has enabled the Roman Catholic Church to form a common mind. At the first session nothing was decided. In the final session, a real consensus had grown...
...title. In fact, about the only thing the two sides can agree on is to suspend the conference until after the month-long Islamic holy fast of Ramadan, which begins next week. Nothing doing, said both Feisal and Nasser from afar. The conferees were told to stay in session until an agreement is reached. Yemenis being Yemenis, that may be until Haradh (average daily temperature: 98°-plus) freezes over...