Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ideas. The Administration denies that Taylor will undermine the authority of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but Taylor himself has little use for the J.C.S. Wrote he: "The Joint Chiefs of Staff system has proved ineffective and needs a fundamental overhaul . . . If war comes, the committee system for the conduct of modern operations would break down within the first few hours or days." And Taylor has argued for civilian military control to "be exercised at the top only after hearing a clear, unimpeded voice of responsible military counsel." Max Taylor clearly intends to provide that voice...
...meeting, the dynamic California Medical Association urged A.M.A. to take the lead in efforts to make prepaid medical care available to all U.S. citizens. President Larson, in his inaugural address last week, said: "The professional spirit emphasizes conformity to the principles of scientific truth and ethical conduct. It also recognizes the rights and potentialities of the rebel or maverick who may have a new idea, a different method, a fresh viewpoint...
...test the potentialities of pay TV. Zenith got FCC permission to conduct a three-year test in Hartford, Conn. The experiment has been stalled by lawsuits brought by local theater owners, but Wright hopes to be able to push on with it within nine months. If the Hartford test is successful. Zenith will be in the enviable position of holding patents for the nation's first proven system of over-the-air transmission of pay TV to private homes...
...Italy, and Composer Pietro Cesti (1623-69), otherwise known as Father Antonio, contributed to its splendor in flamboyant fashion. Renowned for his unfriarly frolics (a partiality toward wine and the wives of his benefactors), he was unfrocked* and dismissed from the court of the Medici in Florence for "reprehensible conduct." In more sober moods he reputedly wrote 100 operas, many of them tradition-breaking efforts that helped determine the shape of opera to come. Last week the first, and one of the best, of Cesti's works, his three-act Orontea, was back in Milan after an absence...
...University is developing plans to conduct this summer a training program for about 100 men and women Peace Corps volunteers going to Nigeria as secondary school teachers...