Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PRECONVENTION SPECIAL OF DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). This first convention warm-up session features commentaries by William F. Buckley Jr., Gore Vidal, Howard K. Smith and William H. Lawrence...
Surprising Departures. On his return from Bratislava, Ulbricht summoned the vacationing members of the East German Parliament to an emergency session. The members braced themselves for another denunciation of West Germany's conciliatory new policy that aims at creating closer cooperation between the two halves of Germany. Indeed, Ulbricht did reiterate some of the old demands, including his insistence that Bonn must respect East German borders. But Ulbricht made some surprising departures from his usual script. He no longer insisted on full diplomatic recognition as the prerequisite for negotiations. He even hinted that trade talks could begin without...
...high. While the introductory lesson is only $15, it can cost as much as $5,000 to complete the entire Scientology course. "It's the only church I've ever seen with a cashier's booth," says a secretary from Texas who quit after one session. Those seeking spiritual release must pass through five levels of liberation; in addition to lectures on the glories of Scientology, initiates must answer a long series of questions, often highly personal, while clutching two tin cans wired to an "E-meter," an electrical gadget reputed to be also capable of communicating...
Governor Reagan, of course, may well call a special session of the legislature to expedite San Francisco's long-awaited BART system. Various measures have been suggested for overcoming its steep construction deficit: higher Bay Bridge tolls, additional vehicle registration or sales taxes, diversion of highway funds from the three bay counties to be served by BART. But thus far, parochial interests or lobbyists have stymied every solution. The delay has prevented BART from opening bids on the new cars for the system. That may in turn delay the opening of BART, scheduled for 1970, until well into...
According to Arnold Lockshin, a Harvard research assistant and one of the four, Kevin Boyle, another challenger, had promised to bring a handwriting expert named Elizabeth McCarthy to the Thursday session...