Word: symposiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...award ceremony highlighted a three-day scientific symposium honoring Whipple on his retirement as director of the Smithsonian Observatory. Some 150 astrophysicists from around the country gathered here to discuss "The Dusty Universe." Topics concerned problems in astronomy common to the theories of cosmic condensation and the evolution of the universe...
...resistance set off a frantic last-minute effort to find Ervin and Baker and summon them to the White House. Baker was located at a symposium in Chicago, Ervin at an airport in New Orleans. Both flew immediately to Washington. They were ushered into the Oval Office and urged by Nixon, Haig and Wright to accept the proposal...
...symposium at the Johnson Memorial Library in Austin, Tex., the urban planners, all former members of the Johnson Administration, charged that President Nixon's housing and revenue-sharing programs are failing to deal with urban problems...
...Building an effective urban coalition is a Presidency's major task," Haar told the symposium. Federal departments and congressional committees will not work for a program unless it has clear presidential support, he said...
...morning the full committee was told about Butterfield's story. A staff attorney was ordered to call Butterfield and tell him that he would be put on television that afternoon. Butterfield, reached in a barbershop, objected, still concerned about national security and worried about missing the opening of a symposium in the Soviet Union on American aerospace products. When Ervin learned of this, he told his staff attorney: "You tell him that I order him to come and testify, and if we have to, we'll subpoena him and bring...