Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With 1 a.m. approaching at its marathon meeting, the HUC voted to conduct a series of House-wide discussions involving students, members of the Committee on Houses, and faculty members, "in conjunction with" a sub-committee of the Students' Committee on Parietals, a committee which has said it might be willing to use civil disobedience...
Though Shannon thinks that John Kennedy established a bad precedent by appointing his brother Attorney General, he praises Bobby's conduct of the office. But he feels that Bobby's record in the Senate is far less laudable. "He is overextended and overscheduled," says Shannon, and while he concedes that Bobby is no longer "the two-dimensional, self-righteous young man of a decade earlier," he shares the skepticism of many Bobby-watchers concerning the genuineness of his transformation: "It is impossible to determine definitively where honest growth ends and alert opportunism begins...
Writing as a student at Harvard University, I was sincerely disturbed by your editorial reaction to the conduct of fifteen of our Faculty who met with President Johnson to discuss...
...Vietnam was thought up and is being managed by the men John F. Kennedy brought to Washington to conduct American foreign and defense policy. Most of us in this room know some at least of these men. Many here know them all. And we know them to be persons of immutable conviction on almost all matters we would regard as central to liberal belief, and further to be men of personal honor and the highest intellectual attainment. There are, further, not a few of us present who contributed something considerable to persuade the American public that we were entirely right...
...social value of deterring crimes against oneself is more debatable - especially when there is no proof that the outlawed conduct causes harm. Most lawyers agree, therefore, that laws prohibiting private acts such as drinking are an unnecessary and unwarranted restraint on individual freedom, and little more than an attempt to legislate morality. Now that argument-and others -is being used in a major attack on federal and state laws against marijuana...