Word: conference
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other action last night, the council took another slap at the hippies. Councillor Walter J. Sullivan introduced an order asking City Manager Joseph A. Deguglielmo '29 to confer with the Chief of Police, and attorneys for the City, County, and state "with a view to instituting proceedings for criminal prosecution of the owners, writers, and distributers of the so-called 'hippie' newspapers now being sold throughout the City...
While the Syrians stewed in their isolation, Jordan's King Hussein was playing his own kind of game. Off he went to Moscow to confer with Soviet offi cials, who offered him both military and economic assistance "in principle" but mentioned no specifics. That was just fine with the King; he preferred not to sign anything and to keep the promises general. Thus, without obligating himself to the Russians, he can use their offers of help to show Washington and London that he has other places to go if they do not give him what he wants...
Against this backdrop, Reagan invited eight Governors to confer with him in San Francisco on Medicaid. Only Michigan's George Romney found it politic to attend, briefly, for the final session. Reagan told assembled health and welfare officials: "Unless Medi-Cal is revised and revamped, it not only can but most assuredly will bankrupt our state." California has a higher proportion of its population on welfare-though not necessarily of the medically needy-than New York State...
...Ford emphasized that the dinner would in no way be a joint session of two committees to confer on an issue. He said, simply, "the parietal issue may come up at dinner." He added, "there are plenty of precedents for this kind of meeting...
...financier whom the President has called "our country's No. 1 bond salesman" was in Washington to confer with the Treasury Department...