Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western allies and went straight to Kennedy. Now Kennedy, after dropping Skybolt without informing the British, is putting through the same pipeline a test ban treaty which the French don't like and on which they are not being consulted. Under these circumstances, de Gaulle may well want to conduct an independent foreign policy. But his differences with the U.S. take him farther from an entente with the East, not close...
...Diefenbaker's party was torn asunder; his government had not been able to pass a single major piece of legislation in eight months in office; some of his most powerful Cabinet members would, in effect, be campaigning against him. It was hard to see how his party could conduct a coherent campaign. Lester Pearson kicked off the Liberal campaign by announcing, "The people will now have a chance to replace this government with one which I feel confident will do a better job." As of last week, Pearson's chances were looking...
...great cavern where nine of my fellow unemployed sat, each behind an office desk.'' Lacquered up with makeup that "would seem a little too much to Sadie Thompson," Kempton found the studio trying to put him at ease with a TelePrompTer, but "only private detectives conduct private conversations while looking fixedly at the person addressed and private detectives do not set their eyes on the subject's forehead." So he sat, "an actor who was not an actor, behind a desk that was not a desk, and pretended to improvise words already soggy in the mind from...
...long and lustrous career, Composer Igor Stravinsky, 80, has consistently refused the degrees and formal honors that accompany fame. But since 1959, at the invitation of New Mexico's affable Roman Catholic Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne, Stravinsky (himself devoutly Russian Orthodox) has traveled to Santa Fe to conduct such works as his magnificent Symphony of Psalms in the city's St. Francis' Cathedral. Now Byrne urged him to accept from Pope John
...Though Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright opened to generally favorable reviews, few New Yorkers could read them-and the show closed after 33 performances. To avoid the same fate. Bert Lahr's comedy. The Beauty Part, has been spending three times the normal advertising budget to conduct contests for free tickets and hire a skywriting plane. Without newspapers, mail orders for Broadway tickets are way down; Beauty Part orders trickle in at only about 70 a day when there should be 300. Cleveland's theaters, after suffering a 20% loss of patrons in December, revived somewhat after a makeshift...