Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, California Democratic Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin, who has threatened to challenge Powell's seating, announced that instead of asking for an outright barring, he would request the appointment of a committee to investigate Powell's conduct. Under this plan, Powell could take his seat and draw his salary but would not be entitled to vote during the investigation. Harlem's leaders threatened to dispatch "busloads" of demonstrators to the capital in a spectacle reminiscent of the 1963 march on Washington. The purpose: to pressure Congress to keep its hands off Adam...
...impressive testament to the young American's skeptical sagacity was a letter to President Johnson sent last week by student leaders at 100 American colleges and universities. Polite in tone, but perturbed -and perturbing-in content, it questioned the conduct, rationale and very aims of the war in Viet Nam. Excerpts...
...Freeman) ordering federal judges in New York, Connecticut and Vermont to use the American Law Institute's new insanity test. By that test, "a person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct, as a result of men tal disease or defect, he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law." Last month the same appellate court reversed Shelter's conviction and ordered a new trial in which he can seek acquittal by reason of Freeman-style insanity...
Boston police discovered $5,000 worth of drugs in a locker in the basement of the B.U. Union, Friday, touching off an investigation of the use of drugs in the city. Campus police will conduct a separate investigation of drugs...
...proliferation of alphabetical emollient agencies - the AAA, the CCC, the SEC, the WPA, the NRA - had done more than restore public confidence. In Roosevelt's mind, Moley says, the relative success of these measures supported the conviction that he was a political messiah, the only man who could conduct the country to its rendezvous with destiny...