Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usually he has one of the fastest draws in Washington. But last week's Harris and Gallup samplings were more like lead than lightning. The Johnson popularity was down to 55%, plenty for a landslide in any presidential election but a new low for him. Support for his conduct of the Viet Nam war dipped below 50% for the first time. A clear majority of 54% said they favored a U.S. pull-out from Viet Nam if the confrontation there between Buddhist monks and military men flared into full-scale civil...
With his Government grant, Gourdine plans to conduct further research on a novel generator that he already has working in small models. With no moving parts, without any need for water, and with only low-grade coal for energy, the New Jersey inventor's "electrogasdynamic" generator can, and does, produce electricity. The problem now is to make the EGD system work on a large scale and with greater efficiency...
...Leftists, in a number of ways, are probably more conservative than the YD's. Their program of developing the political consciousness of local groups through community projects seems closer to Goldwater than to Johnson. Although SDS has tried to conduct its protest of the war through the education of local groups, the protest over foreign policy represents an aberration from the normal scope of SDS community politics. And above all, SDS has failed to face the real issue--the contradiction between the instability of participatory politics and the need to maintain a consistant foreign policy in the nuclear...
That figure may change as Ky continues to assault the pagodas, or if an anti-American government emerges from the promised Vietnamese elections (which seems improbable considering who will conduct them). But the elections in this country will produce only an ambiguous verdict on the war, and a stalemate on domestic issues. If some kind of a satisfactory conclusion is to be found to the war, it will depend on the initiative of the White House, and not on the 1966 elections
...School's Center for Records and Development now has $1.1 million worth of research projects in these and other communities. More significantly, a few elementary and secondary school teachers are coming to the Ed School this summer to learn how to conduct research themselves...