Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator McCarthy says some sensible things. But he should take his full share of guilt for what happened. For his own ends, intentionally or otherwise, he has encouraged these young people in the highly emotional involvement in public affairs that led them into irrational conduct and the consequent disaster. For months we have seen screaming mobs of innocent children whipped into frenzy by the "dream" that the fate of the country depends upon the election of a particular candidate. No one man can save America, regardless of how capable he is. Neither Humphrey nor Nixon can do it alone...
...summer home in Kennebunk Beach, Me., he emphasized that Humphrey "doesn't want a rubber stamp or a carbon copy of himself" for a Vice President. Accordingly, he staked out positions slightly to the left of Humphrey's on at least two important issues. Referring to the conduct of Chicago's police, he noted that "a lot of innocent people were hurt." On Viet Nam, he conceded that Johnson's policy "has not worked to achieve a negotiated settlement" but urged all parties "to get away from this business of trying to blame one another...
...strikes do not, of course, prevent infiltration as it is. At best, some generals claim, bombing can knock out only 10% of sighted infiltration. But even that is valuable enough to the men charged with the conduct of the war and responsible for the lives of their...
...even the underground radio stations had given up broadcasting tips on how to make life miserable for the Russians. One station devoted 45 minutes to a reading on the life of Jan Hus, a 15th century religious reformer who was betrayed while dealing with his enemies on a safe-conduct pass. Arrested and tortured, intoned the commentator, Jan Hus refused to deny "his truth" and went to the stake crying, "Jesus, our Savior, have mercy on me and my country...
Unless granted more time, Merrill Lynch and the other respondents have 15 days to file formal answers to the SEC charges. Then an SEC examiner will conduct the public hearings, probably in Manhattan. If he and the commission uphold the accusations, Merrill Lynch could face penalties ranging from a wrist-tap censure to permanent revocation of its license to do business. The institutions would be subject to milder punishment. They could, for example, be barred from operating as broker-dealers, or lose their registration as investment advisers. But, except for Dreyfus Corp., which operates the well-known Dreyfus & Co. brokerage...