Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard first determined to conduct a ceremonial graduation in 1642 when nine bachelors' degrees were awarded. To that first commencement came, in procession, the same people who will be there this morning: the Governor of the Commonwealth, with his pike-carrying guards mounted on horseback, the ministers of the six towns surrounding the College, various neighboring magistrates, and the Harvard Faculty...
...served to delay Moscow's coming confrontation with its rivals in Peking. Two weeks ago, the Red Chinese finally got around to answering the Soviet invitation to discuss their nasty ideological quarrel face to face, suggested a mid-June meeting in Moscow. But since the Soviets could scarcely conduct two showdowns at the same moment, they suggested a new date, July 5. For once, Peking said...
...Latin American neighbors were outraged, but helpless so long as Duvalier and his bloody, graft-ridden regime held power, with the help of his cocky Tonton Macoute hoodlums. The neighboring Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, had threatened to invade Haiti unless Duvalier granted safe-conduct to 23 refugees who had taken asylum at the Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince. Duvalier obligingly granted safe-conduct to 20 of the 23, and Dominican President Juan Bosch pulled back some of his troops from the border...
...afternoon, having told the fisherman's wife of her husband's suicide without managing to give her a morsel of faith or comfort, the pastor goes to conduct vespers at a church in a nearby parish. A crippled verger waits for him in the study before the service. "There is too much talk of Christ's physical suffering in the Bible; I've suffered as much as Christ, in a physical way," he says. "Christ's real suffering was on the Cross, faced with God's silence in the moment of horrible doubt before...
...highly original buildings erected here in recent years, but they are far too few in number. Perhaps this trouble would be eliminated if the Corporation appointed an Architectural Commission, including those who will live in and use the new buildings as well as experts in design and engineering, to conduct open competitions for the selection of architects and plans. This may not be the easiest way to find good buildings but it is certainly less haphazard than the technique used now. In any event, the administration should give some serious new thought to the physical estate it is presently creating...