Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes suggested that the, Administration is looking for an excuse to get into a final contest [in Vietnam]. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is not the purpose of the Administration, of the United States to conduct that kind of contest even against North Vietnam. We are talking about the use of limited means of military, political, economic, and social power in a situation in which there will be serious costs of failure...
Members of the Class will cross the river to the new Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts for cocktails and dinner Tuesday evening. Later, Arthur Fiedler will conduct the Boston Pops and Harvard Glee Club in a concert at Symphony Hall. A movie of the 1938 Henley Regatta will be shown at 11 p.m. at the Hasty Pudding Clubhouse, 'the Class' social center...
...discussion at the end of the program, three CBS newsmen appeared on camera to sum up. Was the U.S. justified in breaking "the rules of international conduct?" asked Kuralt. Johnson's decision, answered Reporter Bert Quint, brought back "the whole specter of Yankee imperialism in Latin America. It was a decision that is making a lot of Latin Americans hate us." Then Kuralt and Quint turned for guidance to Eric Sevareid, CBS National Correspondent. And like a fatherly professor reproving wayward journalism students, Sevareid offered some corrections: "The specter of American gunboat diplomacy, I would suggest, is a much...
There are an estimated 80,000 vessels of all kinds plying the South Vietnamese coasts. The Junk Patrol is reported to conduct 12,000 searches per month. This would mean each boat is searched only 1.8 times a year. If a gun carrier is approached by a South Vietnamese vessel intent on a search, what would be simpler than slipping the evidence quietly over the side? And if the gun carrier were operating by night, there would be no earthly way to catch...
...Studs. Instead of placing sleeping and living areas wall to wall, the builders separate them with rows of closets in which the clothes themselves act as insulation. The studs in the Fiberglas-insulated walls are staggered, so that no single stud touches both sides of the wall, therefore cannot conduct noise. On the ceiling, sound is absorbed by 2 in. of glass wool surfaced with vinyl. To reduce the clatter of heels, vinyl is laid over an asbestos-and-foam cushion on the floor. Other floors have wall-to-wall carpeting with extra-thick underpadding