Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literature and social sciences especially, if not downright boring, do not permit interchange of ideas between students or between student and teacher. Sections, which are provided to remedy this deficiency, are too often a waste of time; the general pattern is that the few students who are prepared conduct a dialogue with the section man while other students doodle quietly...
Leading the minority opinion, Justice Hugo Black stated, "Fear and abhorrence of the governmental power to try people twice for the same conduct is one of the oldest ideas in Western Civilization...
...some broad sectors of responsibility: congressional relations, inter-American affairs, the Middle East, nuclear-test-ban negotiations. Even in these sectors, Dulles and the President still made the top-level decisions (sending troops to Lebanon, suspending U.S. nuclear tests for one year), but Herter handled the day-to-day conduct of policy. Herter, for example, drafted the directives for the U.S. test-ban negotiating team at Geneva and their drastic revision last week (see Foreign Relations...
...removed from its precarious balance over the head of all mankind, some more positive course of action must somehow be found." To Richard Nixon, more positive action lies in extending the rule of law, under which men maintain peace with justice, to govern the course of international conduct...
...meantime, however, the organization intends to conduct an extensive "Presidential preference poll" in the Cambridge area. Another project of the Harvard Students for Rockefeller is to write a synopsis of Rockefeller principles from a study of the Rockefeller Reports, last year's campaign speeches, and the Governor's legislative program...