Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Abstention. Last week when the A.E.C. considered actual enforcement of international atomic controls, a much more serious difficulty reared its head. The report said: "The international control authority will require broad privileges of movement and inspection, including rights to conduct surveys by ground and air ... to determine what areas may be suspected of containing clandestine activities. . . . Aerial surveys are essential in some circumstances...
...Russians had already reached the same conclusion. It remained only for the U.S. members of the Allied Denazification Committee to change their minds (they were expected to) and Wilhelm Furtwängler could once again conduct his Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra...
...opera called Bolivar, the symphony, five concertos and some chamber music) is there much trace of U.S. influence ("My only influences are French and I remain true to them").* He is now hard at work on a Third Symphony, commissioned by the French National Radio, which he will conduct next October in Paris. What his music says most now is that France's exiled composer is homesick...
Barea saw honorable and intelligent Spanish officers trying to conduct war against the Moors. He also saw the disaster of Melilla in 1921, brought on when King Alfonso ordered the commanding general to make an insane attack. In the relief of Melilla, Barea slaved in a nightmare of stinking, mutilated dead. The Spanish Foreign Legion saved Melilla. Then and later Barea heard legionaries speak with awe of the cold and murderous courage of an officer named Francisco Franco. He also learned of a cynical doctrine held by some military careerists: it would never do to relieve Spain-either by complete...
...last week he had organized a team of 17 boys (twelve of them ex-G.I.s) and 13 girls who conduct Sunday services, organize community activities, visit the sick and preach sermons among Warren County's undermanned Methodist churches. He had taught them how to baptize, given them pastoral pointers...