Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Washington, he pointedly took none of them and no members of the U.S. Embassy with him for his 1-hr, and 45-min. meeting with Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Administration officials were similarly excluded from Byrd's more-than-two-hour talk with Gromyko. This session began on an amiable note, with the Foreign Minister observing that his pile of briefing notes was thinner than Byrd's thick folder. "That's just my notebook," replied the majority leader. "I'm going to write down what you tell...
...Gemini and Apollo manned spacecraft programs. Astronomer Mark Chartrand III, chairman of New York City's American Museum-Hayden Planetarium, claimed Congress was at fault in its financial shortsightedness. Said he: "Hell, if I had my way, I'd target Skylab to fall on Congress while it is in session...
Strauss looked forward to the prospect of a head-to-head session with Premier Menachem Begin; they had met only perfunctorily before. After the first meeting in Begin's office, Strauss's aides said that the two men had got along "extremely well." But there was little doubt as to which of the two was in control. As cameras flashed before their serious talks got under way, Strauss handed Begin a letter from Carter and started to spin a yarn about how his "Grossmama " would slowly pore over a letter while others watched. Begin...
...cinematic organization is perhaps most effective in "The White Album," and most strained in "In the Islands," where she leaps from a resort hotel to a graveyard for Vietnamese soldiers to James Jones with no clear direction. In this first essay, she describes a Doors recording session, a college protest, a dress she bought for the star witness in the Sharon Tate murder trials, and creates a whirling Kaleidoscope. She draws no conclusion because she cannot--her memories are too vivid to allow a comforting generality...
...treatment is admittedly still expensive (hundreds of dollars per session) and untested for long-term effects. But even as a research tool it may prove valuable. Says Klinenberg: "If we can identify the troublesome factors in the white cells or plasma, maybe we can do something to provide lasting relief or even a cure...