Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Years Late. Whatever the merits of the current dispute, the trouble is far more deepseated. The institute, set up at a cost of $40 million under the U.S. Public Health Service in 1953, supposedly to conduct farsighted research in mental health and mental illness, was slow to get rolling. Or, as its own staffers might say, its behavior down the years had been schizoid at best, and often catatonic...
...money to continue his experiment in treating schizophrenics "tough." Cohen ordered the six patients in Scher's special project transferred to a state hospital, provoking angry protest from their families. Last week a congressional subcommittee" on appropriations handed Director Felix a set of stiff questions on the conduct of the institute...
...Ethical Practices Committee in its memorandum of charges, alleged that the embattled Teamsters organization has so far failed to recognize anything wrong in its ranks, to conduct any investigation, or to suspend any union officials whose activities have been questioned...
...Birmingham, Ala. (pop. 365,000), quite a different kind of trial took place. Accused of burglary "with intent to ravish'' Mrs. Mary Giangrosso, an elderly white woman, was Charles Clarence Hamilton, 26, Negro. Rejecting the court-appointed lawyer, Hamilton attempted to conduct his own defense, denied the state's charge that he entered Mrs. Giangrosso's home in October and that he was caught while removing his clothing. After slightly more than an hour's deliberation the all-White jury returned its verdict: guilty as charged. The sentence: death in the electric chair...
Like kindergarten teachers explaining recess rules to a new class, big-league umpires take time out during spring training to explain baseball's official code of conduct to the players. Like kindergarten teachers, they know better than to mistake attention for agreement. Last week, with barely a dozen games played in the 1957 season, the players were having such a good time breaking rules that baseball's rulemakers were busy rewriting the book...