Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prepared to do their partisan best, Senators returned to Washington in August. It was the first post-convention session since 1948, when Harry Truman called back the 80th Congress and denounced it as "do-nothing." This time it was Congress returning of its own (or its leaders') volition because it had not done its work before the Republican and Democratic conventions...
...College Admissions Assistance Center, 535 East 80th St., New York 21, N.Y. Students fill out a form, send a non-refundable $10 registration fee, and their school transcript to the centers, which pass along the forms and transcripts to colleges with unfilled freshman classes...
...government at all. Cock-a-hoop over two fresh by-election victories, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told a Tory rally that in view of "the folly, confusion and incompetence of our opponents," he might very well follow Sir Winston Churchill's example and resign his office after his 80th birthday-in 1974. To others, dedicated to the proposition that a lively Loyal Opposition gets the best government, the Labor Party's plight was no laughing matter. "This is not a Labor Party," said the Daily Mirror. "This is a party in labor...
...Bridgett, 97, British-born seadog who ran away to sea at 14, retired as a tanker skipper for Standard Oil in 1928, but at the outbreak of World War II faked his age, passed his physical and won command of the Liberty Ship Pierre S. Du Pont, celebrated his 80th birthday under heavy bombardment at Malta; in San Francisco...
...Beach to open simultaneously in 18 cities, including Melbourne, Moscow, London, Paris, Tokyo and Washington, the drums are now being carried right into the jungle. To Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Lambarene, Gabon Republic (French Equatorial Africa) went a special 16-mm. print of On the Beach for his 80th-birthday celebration this week...