Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serve made him one of the top favorites to beat out Australia's Rod Laver for the U.S. singles championship at Forest Hills this week. But just 24 hours after he and Partner Chuck McKinley (who was suspended and put on a year's probation for his conduct in the Davis Cup interzone finals in Australia last year) won the U.S. doubles championship at the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill. Mass.. Dennis the Menace was suspended from the singles tournament...
...stern arbiters of the U.S.L.T.A. seemed unimpressed by Ralston's impeccable behavior at Longwood against the same Mexican team that beat him and McKinley at Cleveland. Nor were the prim chaperons of U.S. tennis moved by other reports that the Cleveland incident had been exaggerated. "Ralston's conduct on the court certainly is not angelic." said Olen Parks, who umpired the Cleveland match. "I do not approve of his attitude at all. But far too much is being made of this incident...
Similar foul-ups afflict much of the Cuban economy. The Communist bloc barters oil. guns, MIG jets, some machinery and foodstuffs for sugar, plus other Cuban produce such as tuna. But the Reds do not, and apparently cannot, conduct the $1 billion two-way trade in the range of goods that Cuba once enjoyed with...
Feeling that the public is behind them, teachers are devising countermeasures for the opening of school in two weeks. Many plan to balk at supervising extracurricular activities, to refuse to teach overcrowded classes or to conduct and grade examinations. Even a nationwide strike of teachers is being talked about. "I can't rule it out," says Sir Ronald Gould, chairman of the National Union of Teachers...
Another 1,000 or more helpless Cubans are holed up at the various embassies in Havana. Since Castro refused to honor the Latin American tradition of safe-conduct out of the country, many have been in asylum for five months or more. The Venezuelan embassy holds 205 people; Brazil has 195. Costa Rica 95, Argentina 70. Colombia 50. Though European embassies do not officially grant asylum, several have taken in fleeing Cubans as "guests." The political "asylees" have escaped Castro's police, but many of them are little better off than those in his dungeons...