Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...U. of Pennsylvania...
...other quaint U-Hall tradition; it changes hands now and then when students here get mad enough about something, like they did nine years ago about Vietnam, etc. Sometimes students just sit down in front of the building and prevent access to it, as they did last year to protest the University's policy of retaining investments in firms with operations in South Africa. When there is a protest to be held, it is a tradition to hold it at University Hall, but don't expect the building or its inhabitants to pay much attention...
...plenary" session usually lasts no longer than 45 minutes. The delegations then break up into smaller, "postplenary" working groups over coffee, tea, juice, cookies and peanuts. (Warnke's predecessor, U. Alexis Johnson, instituted a dry rule in 1973, fearing that one drink too many during a postplenary might lead to an inadvertent breakthrough-or breakdown...
...Cambridge, Tsongas toured all the offices but again encountered bad luck: the mayor was not in. The only bright spot during this stop came on the way to Somerville, when a policeman generously did not pull over the campaign car after it made an illegal U-turn in front...
...held a conversation together by his own chatter long enough, he might find out what he himself was talking about. His style was caught best by a young congressman, sent by Roosevelt to China in November 1944, Mike Mansfield, later to be the Majority Leader of the U S 'Senate. Mansfield reported pithily to Roosevelt: "I saw Major General Pat Hurley and we had a very long talk. He talked for two hours and forty-seven minutes, and I talked for thirteen minutes...