Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week 50 Negroes, led by Playwright LeRoi Jones, trooped into the Newark city council chamber to confront Imperiale's vigilantes attending a routine council session. When a phonograph played the national anthem, the Negroes refused to stand and the whites cried: "Throw the bastards out!" Jones, arguing against the proposed use of police dogs in the ghetto, told the council: "Our rational plea to this community is to avoid the emotional issue of dogs. Whether you own Newark or not, nobody can sell ashes...
...campaign, he sketched Romney, Rockefeller and Nixon as windup dolls running off haphazardly in all directions-and in the case of Romney, backward. Last week it was Lyndon Johnson's turn in the guise of a booted, bulbous-nosed Texas longhorn that horns in on a picture-taking session. "You gittin' my good side, oF buddy?" he inquires of the photographer. "Which side's that?" retorts an onlooker...
...process is a complicated one. They will discuss the proposal to let students sit on the Council, but a vote has to be delayed for one meeting at which time a majority of the Trustees must vote on it. The Board sits again in June but this session is always poorly attended, so the matter will probably have to wait until September...
Removing the Cover. In Washington, the crisis helped to swing a critical vote. The Senate, after considerable debate, heeded Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's warning during an evening session that "tonight is important in the history of this country." It passed the legislation that Martin insisted on to remove the "gold cover" that has been in force since 1934. But the vote was close (39 to 37), as conservative Senators who want deeper cuts in non-military spending and liberals who oppose increased spending on Viet Nam joined together in a coalition of protest. Under the bill...
They seized the opportunity at a discussion on Vietnam organized by the Harvard tutors. When the discussion opened, one of the campus leaders challenged our authority to organize the meeting. Other students picked up from there. In a matter of minutes the session turned into a grilling of the tutors...