Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seem to conduct your politics with a fine 18th century gusto," Winston Churchill once told an Australian politician. Last week, as a three-week campaign for general elections ended, Churchill's observation was as accurate as ever...
...Cardinal had never seen the film, perhaps because it was originally not shown to this area, but he demanded nonetheless an apology from those who had produced it. Governor Volpe, who saw it two days ago, reacted rather differently; he asked Police Commissioner Sullivan to conduct a thorough investigation of his department...
...anyone agreed with anyone else. Columnist Walter Lippmann found the 'shakeup "heartening evidence of the President's uncommon ability to learn from experience." But to David Lawrence it was "a tragic example of experimentation, lack of system, and the evil effect of partisan politics on the efficient conduct of government." Positioning himself in the cautious middle, Columnist Marquis Childs wrote that the State Department is "an overblown machine that carries into the jet age much of the apparatus of the horse-and-buggy era ... Whether it is resolved by the changes just announced is an open question...
...some institutionalized heartbreak houses, officials conduct a midnight bed check to make sure that husbands have not climbed back in over the walls. Many marriages do not survive the ordeal. "Once you lose your home," says a harassed welfare worker, "you stand to lose your husband, then your children as well." At one L.C.C. hostel the inmates strap their valuables to their bodies at night. Families are allowed to stay at such hostels only for three months. After that, if they are still homeless, they are often forced to put their children in public boarding homes. London County Council alone...
...same bill, Peter Lorre plays a homicidal Humbert Humbert in "M," a German expressionist film that was shown here last spring. It's well worth seeing again, especially since Zero for Conduct plays with...