Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adjourn until mid-December, much of the legislation that Lyndon Johnson regards as vital already seems destined for delay until 1968. Most important of the bogged-down bills is the President's proposal for a 10% tax surcharge and, in the election-year atmosphere of the second session, the bill seems likely once again to provoke a deadlock over spending and taxes. "We are doing nothing," Johnson conceded last week. "We are at a standstill...
...outbreak in Southern California. Earlier, more than 80,000 acres were charred and 45 homes destroyed. With no rain in sight and the area's fire season extending from September to January, firemen were braced for the worst. Meanwhile, Governor Ronald Reagan promised he would ask a special session of the legislature "to consider legislation affording tax relief to fire-damage victims." It seemed the only kind of relief in store...
Stennis said: "We want to return to our primary assignment of recommending a standard of conduct." In fact, there is scant likelihood that either house will pass anything resembling a workable code of ethics this session. Despite all the demands for a tough code, Congress has dawdled too long to agree on anything so sensitive. Thus, for yet another year, it perpetuates a moral vacuum in which standards of conduct are a matter for the independent judgment of the legislator...
...this has not been enough. Like a wound at first neglected, then treated with the wrong medicine, the Northeast continues to fester as the war flares on. It is no longer rare for a Communist band to take over a village for a propaganda session that is often climaxed by the execution of a local official. In 1967's first nine months, 216 government officials and supporters were assassinated, more than double the total for the same period in 1966 and equal to the level of Viet Nam in 1959. Because there are not enough men or resources, security...
...belief that high school driver-education courses produce safer drivers is so sacredly held that insurance companies trim premiums for motorists who have taken them. That gospel was challenged last week by University of California Psychologist Frederick L. McGuire. "There is no evidence," McGuire told a session of the National Safety Congress in Chicago, "that driver education influences accident frequency or severity...