Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...platoon. Getting into the act, the Russians have sent in at least 900 workmen and technicians, who are constructing a new jet airport north of San'a. Recently, the Russians threw an inquiring U.N. inspector off the premises when he approached the airport to conduct a routine inspection. Apart from such harassment, the U.N. teams found it downright dangerous to travel around the country...
Nobody had heard of Billy Graham either. He was a Baptist preacher from North Carolina, had recently flopped at a revival meeting in Altoona, Pa. Brought to Los Angeles by a group of fundamentalist ministers to conduct an evangelistic mission, he ran into discouraging difficulties. His sponsors had trouble raising the $20,000 budget; the owner of the selected tent site refused to rent it for the crusade; the fire commissioner complained that the circus-style tent was a public hazard...
...vain, previous Burmese governments have offered amnesties to the rebels. Ne Win went farther: he promised a safe-conduct to rebel leaders for discussions in Rangoon. Red Flag Leader Thakin Soe accepted. He was picked up by a river gunboat, taken to a government airfield and flown to Rangoon, where he promptly demanded 1) a nationwide ceasefire, 2) withdrawal of Burmese troops from vital Red Flag areas, and 3) a meeting of all political factions-legal and illegal-to form a new government. Taken aback by these demands, Ne Win denounced Thakin Soe as "insincere" and gave him seven days...
Astonishing Lesson. For his 300 students, Leinsdorf mixed wit, energy and a towering musical intelligence to give them a vigorous summer of learning. He brought in soloists such as Pianists Lorin Hollander and Malcolm Frager to talk with his students, and even induced Eugene Ormandy to conduct the Tanglewood student orchestra. Taking a place in the orchestra himself, he was unsparing with the large batch of student conductors who turned up this year. Stopping the young conductors in mid-beat, he would say, "Why didn't the orchestra play for you there? Are you taking the orchestra...
...solemnly as a referee pacing off a long penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct, the clerk of the federal court in Atlanta read the verdict: "We, the jury, find in favor of Wallace Butts in the sum of $60,000. We find that Wallace Butts is entitled to recover punitive damages from Curtis Publishing Co. We assess punitive damages from Curtis Publishing Co. We assess punitive damages...