Word: ten-day
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...will pull in large nonpolitical conventions at which visitors will spend enough to make up for this year's losses. But officials of some other cities are skeptical. San Diego, which was abruptly dropped last spring as the site of the Republican Convention, celebrated its loss with a ten-day music and dance festival that concluded last week...
...Constitution says that if the President takes no action on a bill for ten days after it has been presented to him by Congress, it becomes law without his signature-unless Congress is in adjournment when the ten-day period ends. In that case, if the President has done nothing, his "pocket veto" kills the bill. After a normal veto, Congress can try to organize the two-thirds majorities necessary to override the President. But pocket-vetoed legislation must start all over again as a new bill, crawling through the tortuous process of committee hearings and debate...
...Viet Nam Chief Negotiator Xuan Thuy return to the Paris peace table, amid fresh speculation that both China and the Soviet Union have been pressing Hanoi to settle the war. Even the expected denunciations of American "imperialism" that Fidel Castro voiced in Moscow last week as he ended a ten-day visit to the Soviet Union seemed more ritual than rage. The suspicion persists that a U.S.-Cuban reconciliation is not out of the question -especially in light of a recent remark by Castro that "there is no such thing as a permanent enemy...
Farren, New England coordinator of the Harrisburg Pilgrimage Committee, was sentenced to 20 days in jail. Denise Latimer, who is still in custody of U.S. marshalls for refusing to allow her fingerprints to be taken, received a ten-day jail sentence. The four other defendants received lesser penalties...
...case you read rather poorly. One would have imagined that the reference to an "extraordinary ten-day visit" was clearly specified in the interview. The reporter mentioned the access which I was given to Chinese society when I was there in being permitted into areas that were usually closed to visitors, and also in being allowed to ask questions on all aspects of the Chinese Revolution, domestic as well as external. He followed this with speculation on why I was allowed this degree of freedom. He might even have added, as I also pointed out in the interview, that when...