Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cleared the way for presidential debates among the major candidates-something that Hubert Humphrey wants and Richard Nixon, as the man with a big lead to preserve, does not. In their maneuvering over the bill the Democrats staged a lock-in in the House, and the Republicans held a sit-out in the Senate. When House Republicans conducted a 27-hour filibuster by insisting on time-consuming roll calls (45 of them, each requiring roughly 30 minutes), Speaker John McCormack finally locked the doors for the first time since 1917. With a captive quorum, Democrats were able...
...case of jitters in Saigon was the return of Major General Duong Van ("Big") Minh after four years in exile. Ousted in 1964 because of alleged "neutralist" tendencies, Minh was brought back by President Thieu as part of a national reconciliation effort (TIME, Sept. 27). That did not sit well with some South Vietnamese hawks, who worry about a U.S. sellout and who fear popular Big Minh as an ideal figure for eventual compromise with the Communists. Vietnamese Deputies and Senators began receiving un signed letters that branded Minh a tool of the Communists. Catholic extremists planned street demonstrations...
...fate of Luciano Berio. Last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, Berio led the New York Philharmonic and the Swingle Singers in the world premiere of his Sinfonia. It is a white-hot musical experience that invokes the malaise of the times better than all the sit-ins, beards, beads and clubbings that wrench contemporary life...
This fall, students at many colleges and universities have gained representation on curriculum committees, advise the president on educational goals or operate nonacademic campus services. At Berkeley, students now sit on 23 committees, including one in the Academic Senate. It is becoming common for students to gain the decisive voice in regulations affecting their social activities and living conditions. Discipline is often handled by student courts...
...Cocktail Party, the actors are naked, as it were, in their ordinary clothes. There they sit, in what is supposed to be a fashionable London living room, giggling over silly society stories with tag lines like "Up in a tree: you and the Maharajah," and "Lady Klootz and the wedding cake." This is not exactly American-style froth, and it sounds odd enough in American voices, with their somewhat ponderous, unmusical delivery. And when one of the voices belongs to Comedienne Nancy Walker-solid and scrappy as ever, with her hair dyed firehouse red-the incongruity is almost painful...