Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyons suggested that the important thing is to conduct the hearings in a way that insures public confidence in the findings. Allowing the complainant counsel might help, he said, as might the appointment of civilians to the Board. At present, it consists of three police captains...
...Everyone applauded enthusiastically-everyone, that is, except the little man in a grey-blue uniform who sat impassively among the delegates to the left of the rostrum. He was Wu Hsiu-chuan, Red China's delegate sent by Peking to register quiet disdain at Khrushchev's conduct in the latest chapter in the Sino-Soviet split...
...Kennedy confidence is also plainly apparent in his recent conduct of foreign policy. He led the U.S. into confrontation with Khrushchev over Cuba without consulting the nation's Allies. His decision to cancel the Skybolt missile program, upon which Britain had based its nuclear hopes, was independently made and brusquely carried out. He thinks it is nonsense for U.S. Allies to want independent nuclear forces, although he has not yet convinced-if that is the word-France's Charles de Gaulle of this...
Burns is pretty unhappy about present-day politics. Says he: "As a nation we have lost control of our politics." The U.S. has "a government by fits and starts, a statecraft that has not been able to supply the steady leadership and power necessary for the conduct of our affairs. We have reacted to change rather than dominated it." Why is this so? The Burns thesis: "The pattern of national politics is essentially a four-party pattern. The Democratic and Republican parties are each divided into congressional and presidential structures, with all the elements that comprise the American type...
...truly great literary feuds lasted years, sometimes lifetimes, and were passionately contested. Literary men (literary women for some reason seldom seem to feud) are not necessarily more addicted to feuds than painters or musicians. But they are better equipped to conduct them, and in some cases they all but abandoned their careers to wage them...