Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London last week technically faced the penalty of death by hanging. Instead, they were met at London Airport by plainclothesmen and whisked away to an obscure hotel. The three men were representatives of Ian Smith's rebellious white-minority government, and they came on a special safe-conduct dispensation to commence what the British press called "talks about talks," which Prime Minister Harold Wilson hoped might lead to Rhodesia's ending its six-month rebellion and rejoining the Commonwealth...
Although nontheistic, Ethical Culture has legal recognition as a religion. Its ministers, called leaders, conduct marriage and funeral services and preside at Sunday morning meetings, which blend organ preludes and thoughtful moral lectures on issues of the day. Most of them have a practical knowledge of what they speak. Jerome Nathanson, chairman of the Fraternity of Leaders, heads the New York Committee to Abolish Capital Punishment. Another leader, Algernon Black, is active in SANE and the Euthanasia Society of America...
...Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will present the second of these concerts in Harvard Yard at 7 p.m. tonight on the steps of Widener Library. Elliot Forbes '49, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, will conduct...
...that the professor had advocated perjury; it was a story that shocked three local federal judges whom Freedman had previously criticized in his capacity as head of Washington's Civil Liberties Union. The judges requested the local Bar Association's grievance committee to investigate Freedman for "unethical conduct"-a preliminary move to possible disbarment...
Richman does point to one general deficiency in executive conduct of foreign affairs: "the foreign policy programs these presidents carry into office with them usually amount to no more than a few pledges to defend freedom against communism." However, one must recall the nation's repudiation in 1964 of Goldwater's very specific list of intentions abroad--and he was the first candidate in a while to avoid Richman's criticism. Richman fears that as a result, the burden for policy planning ends up in the tradition-encrusted State Department with obsolete policies, like an insistense on stability in Southeast...